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My guess is that the answer to this is no, but I thought I'd ask on the off-chance: is there any way to track the edits of a range of IPs? For example, could I track all edits made by anyone in the 123.456.X.X range (that I just made up for this example)? Talk Islander 15:05, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
I really love the autocomplete function added to the search box recently (well, maybe not that recently now...), but one objection I have to the way it works is that when you right click on a popup option it doesn't let you do anything (e.g. open in new tab, which would surely be helpful), but opens it just as if you had left-clicked it. Richard001 ( talk) 00:47, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
if (window.os_eventMouseup){
var os_eventMouseup_old = os_eventMouseup
os_eventMouseup = function(srcId,e){
e = e || window.event
var r
if (e.shiftKey || (e.button>0)) r = os_mapsrcId
if (r){
var frm = document.getElementById(r.searchform)
var inp = document.getElementById(r.searchbox)
var oldT = frm.target, oldV = inp.value
frm.target = '_blank'
}
os_eventMouseup_old(srcId,e)
if (r){ frm.target = ''; inp.value = oldV }
}
}
I don't follow so well... is that something I can add to my .js page here? I would really prefer a new tab than a new window too, having lots of windows isn't really my style of browsing (I suppose it's quite similar, though I can't move the windows around on the taskbar (possibly because it was designed by MS) and I can't go to 'undo close window' or 'recently closed windows). Is it possible for a higher level technical fix for this, e.g. changing the MediaWiki software behind it? Richard001 ( talk) 03:25, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
I inserted the the code importScript("User:Smith609/toolbox.js");
onto
my monobook page, which was supposed to activate the citation widget in my browser, but it does not. I have reported this issue with the script creator,
User:Smith609, but he was unable to resolve my problem. --
Crackthewhip775 (
talk)
06:02, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
the blocking template sometimes does not include </div> in the end so that the colour of the template to stop. see [1] > [2] if you know the source of the template, tell them... -- CuteHappyBrute ( talk) 15:13, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
How do script changes reach users if they don't clear their cache? Many people use my script by adding the following to their monobook: importScript('User:Lightmouse/monobook.js/script.js'); It allows them to delink dates, reformat dates to US or international format, and to add metric units. Sometimes I will update it but the update doesn't have any effect on a user on the other side of the planet. When I get such a report, I tell them to clear their cache and that usually works. However, I don't know how my changes reach them if they don't clear their cache. Please can somebody explain this to me. Lightmouse ( talk) 10:09, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
That would be very useful. I took a look at those .js files but couldn't work out exactly which piece of code I should copy. Can you make a suggestion? Lightmouse ( talk) 16:35, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
window.location.reload(true)
). It is all in the subroutine WikEdAutoUpdate.
Cacycle (
talk)
01:10, 3 December 2008 (UTC)Thanks. I have created User:Lightmouse/monobook.js/cacheupdatetest script.js and copied WikEdAutoUpdate into it. Presumably, it would be better if I replace 'WikEd' with a different name. Are there any other changes I need to make it work for my users? 09:30, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
I have made some changes but I am way out of my skill zone and I can't see the way ahead. I may have to give up. Lightmouse ( talk) 14:06, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
it may have been raised before but on a long article there's big blue nothing down the left column of the page. Why not use a floating frame so that the stuff always there on the left column at the top comes down as you browse. Mccready ( talk) 00:11, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
Background: {{ Wikification progress}} is a template that shows the backlog of articles that need to be wikified. It shows the number of articles in each of the monthly backlogs (e.g. "Category:Wikify by <month> <year>"), recently tagged articles (‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Articles that need to be wikified), and the entire backlog (‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:All pages needing to be wikified). The number of articles in the entire backlog equals the sum of the monthly backlogs plus the recently tagged articles.
Problem: I've just checked the template, and as of 3 December 2008, 23:59 (UTC) the article count for the entire backlog is 15,422, while the sum of the constituent backlogs is a whopping 16,022. That's a discrepancy of (exactly) 600 articles!
Following previous discussion on a suspiciously similar problem, I suspect that there is something wrong with the PAGESINCATEGORY count that is displayed in the template for one or more of the categories (these numbers do equal the page counts displayed in the categories themselves, though).
Can someone please verify if my suspicions are true. If so, then what is the best way of displaying the actual number of articles in the category? If not, then what else can be causing such a large discrepancy (I've already checked every template I could think of that includes wikification categories)?
Cheers. – Liveste ( talk • edits) 00:33, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
I'm using IE7, and I see overlapping text in the Khwarezm article.
Does anybody else see this? 66.57.190.166 ( talk) 20:28, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
Am I taking crazy pills or have many of the editing interfaces changed recently? For instance, when editing a page, the following bitey text appears:
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource. DO NOT SUBMIT COPYRIGHTED WORK WITHOUT PERMISSION!
Similarly, clicking on a redlink now shows the text
You have followed a link to a page that does not exist yet.
To create the page, start typing in the box below (see the help page for more info).
If you are here by mistake, click your browser's back button.
Did I miss a discussion somewhere? Skomorokh 21:51, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I have been asking here and there about some problems graphics in Timeline have. The graphics I am making in Spanish wikipedia do not show data. Some times they show the bars and other times not. I read this is caused by a bug, but I don´t understand any about that. Somebody could help me? Thanks to everybody. This is the graphic. (If you can not see it, you have to click on edit):
Thanks again!--
Eliasjorge4 (
talk)
04:37, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
All the old versions of this image return 403 (HTTP forbidden) errors. There are no corresponding entries in the deletion log. Seems to be an isolated occurrence - I poked around the same directory using Google Image Search and couldn't reproduce the problem. But is it? MER-C 12:36, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
-> WP:AN#Major UK ISPs reduced to using 2 IP addresses -- Gurch ( talk) 16:00, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
I've noticed that when using the secure site ( https://secure.wikimedia.org/...), there are images (the WP Egg, banners, etc) and other content that are linked from the regular non-SSL site. This causes a pop-up box in IE at every page load, stating that the page contains secure as well as insecure content, and do you want to display the non-secure content. In Firefox it throws a security warning icon, but at least doesn't force you to acknowledge a popup box at every page load. Would it be possible to address the http:// links from the secure site, so all content is loaded from the secure site? It would make using the secure site more appealing under the IE browser. Arakunem Talk 20:55, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
A standardised method exists for Romanising [Mandarin] Chinese text, known as
Pinyin. This uses Latin characters with accents. Currently setting the language code using {{
lang|zh-Latn|...}}
for such text, may cause some browser combinations to only read as far as the zh
(Chinese) and select a double-width font; if this happens the result is ugly. The solution is probably to override the font (back to the default) using CSS. Assistance and guidance on the changes needed would be welcomed. One error case noted by another editor at
Template talk:Zh-p#zh-Latn is Firefox 3 on [a] WinXP/SP2 desktop. Leaving the text without a lang=
tag means that the span is assumed to be English, which it is not. —
Sladen (
talk)
23:36, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
I access wikipedia via my work machine, which is subject to all sorts of restrictions and can't access mediawiki.org, and my home machine which isn't restricted. i never changed my skin, so it's still classic i guess. anyway, my home machine still shows it, but my work machine all of a sudden shows wikipedia in kind of a flat text mode; no bars across the top with the views or my personal tools, no bar down the left with the navigation links, search, interaction links, toobox; instead they are all tacked onto the bottom of the page in a vertical set of plain text links. also, the navigation popup which used to show the beginning of the page content and links to the various views on mouseover a link doesn't work on the work machine, but still works at home. so.. did the css or something get moved over to another domain, like mediwiki? is there any fix? thanks. Gzuckier ( talk) 00:45, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
-- Gurch ( talk) 01:54, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
I am trying to use the Template:GeoGroupTemplate and it works just fine on the article page with the coordinate listing. I asked a query on the talk page about using the list on one article, and the maps on a different article, and was replied to but I don't understand still. Usage of geogroup template on one page, listing on separate page The article North Sea is very long. I would like a geographical features map on the page using coordinates so the places are rather precise on the map of the North Sea, so the coordinates are all listed at Geography of the North Sea and the geogroup template there is awesome. Just need it at North Sea as well. Also asked at Wikipedia:WikiProjekt Georeferenzierung/Wikipedia-World/en Kind Regards SriMesh | talk 02:33, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
I was told to come here after asking elsewhere. Apologies if I'm in the wrong place yet again. I was wondering if someone could help me, or point me to someone or somewhere that could, convert a database dump to multiple, non-treed base-raw html pages. I've already followed the somewhat bland instructions at Wikipedia:Database but never get quite the results I needed.
I have
http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20080724/enwiki-20080724-pages-meta-current.xml.bz2. I want to convert the uncompressed code (using ANY programs) to multiple html pages. The result I'm looking for at the end is to have pages the equivalent of going to every page and clicking save:as... and just have a bunch of html files in a folder. Am I missing something?
Lostinlodos (
talk)
03:24, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
There's a non-showing graphic (new, I guess — I've seen the little box for it for about a week) at the very top of the international Wikipedia home page. It doesn't show up on either of my browsers (AOL or IE6, on a PC). What's the problem, and when is it going to be fixed? Thanks. Softlavender ( talk) 05:10, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
I'm here to mention an archived topic that nobody seemed to respond. It's about simplifying a template code, which has obvious repetitions. I wonder if that issue is a bit too "technical" for the guys here. Hytar ( talk) 22:15, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
I don't care how the tabs are arranged, be they 3 by 2 or 6 by 1, but 6 tabs, instead of 4 needs to be implemented.
What I am talking about is that, say, for this page, we have "project page", "discussion", "edit this page", and "history", at the top. These are for navigational, editing, forensic, and learning purposes. Now, this isn't very user friendly, and people have argued that having 6 instead of the 4 we have now would make it more clumsy. And that if anons made an account, they could use CSS to implement this. Well some anons don't like making accounts. And it is more clumsy right now, and confusing, where by pressing the discussion tab, and then edit, it is counter-intuitive. People also lose thoughts, depending on their connection speed, by having to wait for extra pages to load. It's even hard to understand with the 4 tabs switch over system that is used right now.
Another problem are the templates: going to Template:Navbox Province of Italy, at its top left corner, you will see v • d • e. This too needs the 3 other analogs. You can put them in 3 by 2, or 6 by 1, but for the same reasons above, specifically for server resource times/loading times and userfriendlyness/navigational ease. 96.53.149.117 ( talk) 12:46, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
At {{ LGV Est}} there are a couple of external links that contain spaces; what can I do to make them render properly? Chris DHDR 13:21, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
Something Rdunn ( talk · contribs) discovered [7]: When you type "wiki:" into search box, it redirects to http://c2.com/cgi/wiki instead of showing the "bad title" message. Anyone have an idea why that happens? Oo Regards So Why 12:51, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
It's easy to find out which pages link to a non-existent article, but how do I find out which pages are in a non-existent category? Specifically, I went to category:Coordinate geometry and clicked on "edit" and then on "what links here" and found nothing, although there was an article that bore that category tag. (The article was law of tangents, from which I removed the tag because it doesn't fit even if there were such a category.) Michael Hardy ( talk) 23:45, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
I'm creating a new thread for that topic because it died out back then, but no one objected either. Do people think those ideas should be implemented? I think it would improve preview, which is already a very useful tool. -- Menti sock 16:30, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
I see nothing wrong with the current preview. WP is not a text editor, it is an encyclopedia. If after saving you don't like what you get, just go to history and hit undo. 199.125.109.90 ( talk) 16:27, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
In the discussion at Rupee-dollar conversion, I proposed copying the U.S. Government historical tables for the rupee-dollar conversion multiplier to be used in a monetary conversion template. However, it would be easier if Wikipedia could tap into free external conversion tables (such as available at U.S. Federal Reserve) for internal conversion template usage. Is there a way to do this with Wikipedia software? -- Suntag ☼ 14:16, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
I would like to set up my own Wiki site (not to create an encyclopedia!) and wonder what is the best way. I would anticipate that, at most, it would have 1,000 contributors and perhaps 50 concurrent users. Should I have a company host the MediaWiki software for me? Is there a company that allows you to "spawn" a whole new MediaWiki installation? Any advice on the best way to go, would be appreciated. Twotinsofbeans ( talk) 16:08, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
Templates like {{
Mozart operas}}, which currently use <br />
to separate list items, should be marked up as proper lists, with the bullet styling removed to preserve the current appearance.
I've created a sandbox version at
User:Pigsonthewing/scratchpad, using list-style-type:none
on the parent wrapper, but that doesn't work and I can't figure out how to use styling in wiki mark-up to remove bullets. Can anyone assist, please? (Feel free to edit my scratchpad page.)
Once the style is perfected, I intend to ask for it to be moved to the main stylesheet, and applied with a class. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 00:29, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
<ul style="list-style-type:none; list-style-image:none">
<li>''[[Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebotes]]'' (1767)</li>
<li>''[[Apollo et Hyacinthus]]'' (1767)</li>
<li>''[[Bastien und Bastienne]]'' (1768)</li>
</ul>
I have put some time into removing every instance of the string "United World Chart" from Wikipedia, and, so far as I can tell, there is only one occurrence left (legitimate, because it's in quoted text inside a reference). I got rid of the remaining 1200 last week. However, when I use MediaWiki search to look for "United World Chart" to make sure people don't add references back in, I consistently get 40 results, day after day. How long will it take for the search function to catch up to reality? On the flip side, how long between the time that someone adds it back and it showing up in the search?— Kww( talk) 03:58, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
Worked for 39 out of 40 articles. However, a search for "United World Chart" in quotes still returns World as a result, and I cannot see why.— Kww( talk) 12:55, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
I'm sure this has probably been discussed before somewhere, but would it be possible for the section title that is automatically generated in an edit summary to be a link to that section header? ~ JohnnyMrNinja 21:06, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
When I edit Wikipedia articles, I often do it from a text-only environment using lynx. Because I do not have an account with Wikipedia (and have no intention of having one), this prevents me from posting any new external links because I cannot pass the anti-spam captcha test.
I have no problem with this, but I do get annoyed when I am told that my edit includes new external links but it does not.
Just now I tried to add a response to the current version of a Reference Desk item, WP:RD/E#NFL playoffs, and teams with 2 ties, and was incorrectly told that my edit included new external links. I then backed up, edited the item again, and tried saving it without adding or changing any content -- and I was still told that my edit included new external links.
What is going on here and can it be fixed?
In case it matters, the current oldid for WP:RD/E as I write this is 256982623; of course I can't post a direct link to that version of the page because a URL would be treated as an external link.
(Please direct any replies here and not to the talk page for my IP address, which is shared.)
-- 208.76.104.133 ( talk) 06:06, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
Is there possibly no way to find out which templates (transclusions utilizing includeonly
) are populating a particular category? --
Menti
sock
09:44, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
Is it possible to use height the same way as one can use width to control the size of cells in tables?
For example, when using sub tables in a parent table, setting the sub table width to 100% will cause the sub table to be "evenly" spread across the cell in the parent table. However, setting height to 100% does not cause the sub table to be spread in any way up and down the cell in the parent table.
Setting the height of the sub table to a set number of pixels does cause the sub table to be a minimum height, but this does not cause the rows in the sub table to be spread at all over the full height.
Setting the height to a percentage does not seem to work at all, using either the deprecated height="100%" or using style="height:100%;".
Any ideas on how to get a table's rows to be spread evenly vertically over the available height?
Peet Ern ( talk) 10:29, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
Have pop-ups stopped working for anyone else, or just for me? DuncanHill ( talk) 23:06, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
An IP just added a large "History" section to Mountainair, New Mexico, which I've reverted because it's a copyvio of Mountainair's website. Being an administrator, I decided to delete the revision (can't hurt), so I deleted the article and proceeded to restore it: before restoring I clicked just the copyvio revision to restore and then selected "Invert selection", so I know that I told it to restore all revisions except the copyvio. However, upon restoring it, I see the edit still there (done at 22:48, 10 December 2008 by 168.103.113.99), so I ended up reverting it instead. Can anyone explain why the edit didn't stay deleted, even though I told it to restore only the other edits? Nyttend ( talk) 23:09, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
Is there any way for the watchlist to add the "top" tag as is done on the other similar lists such as "my contributions" and "user contributions" It would be a great help to see at a glance that the edit was the most recient edit on a page
Examples:
Dbiel ( Talk) 19:17, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
Something that I just discovered, and felt should be noted here is that this request was actually posted over 1-1/2 years ago and remains as a new feature request to the WikiMedia Software. see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8482 Dbiel ( Talk) 03:16, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
I asked this question mid-November at
Wikipedia talk:Colours but to no response. Maybe it will get better reception here:
What are the
hex codes for the colors shown in Wikipedia
internal links?
-
What color is the link to this unvisited page?
-
What color is the link to this non-exsistant page?
I noticed these colors are different from <font color="blue"> and <font color="red">. Also, what are the colors to visited, existing pages (they're more of a purple color)? Thanks for your help,
Arbitrarily0 (
talk)
03:01, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
All of a sudden thumbnail generation for the attached image is broken. This isn't good etc. Any suggestions for a fix? Noodle snacks ( talk) 12:20, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
Starting today, whenever I attempt to edit a page on English Wikipedia, I get an intrusion attempt alert from Norton Internet Security. (Commons and German Wikipedia appear unaffected.) The name of the "risk" is "HTTP Acrobat PDF Suspicious File Download". I suspect it's an error in the risk definition, causing it to by chance match something on the edit page, but I can't be sure. Nothing obvious on the edit page fails to work. But it sure is annoying. Any ideas? Powers T 14:46, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
Heh, didn't think to look on the admin noticeboard for a technical issue. Sorry for the duplication. Anyway, I tend to agree that this is not something serious (I'm still editing here after all!), but something changed, and if it's on our end we should investigate. Powers T 16:11, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
Symantec info on this error. No idea why we are seeing a false positive here, I suspect they just borked their signatures for this type of attack. -- TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 16:48, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
(outdent) In fact Orla from Symantec stated in the afformention Community board: "Hello, I can confirm that the issues you've been seeing, where NIS erroneously triggers the detection "HTTP Acrobat PDF Suspicious File Download" on some legitimate websites, have been resolved. Corrected signatures have been created and are now available for download via LiveUpdate." They then appologized and indicated that they take these false reports seriously. -- CyclePat ( talk) 19:12, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
When using the "easy cite" button (
) on the edit screen and then picking a citation template, when one hits the tab key, it acts in a way that's less than intuitive. Currently, when one is in a field and then presses the tab key, rather than skip to the field immediately to the right (from the left field) or skip down and to the left field (from the right field), pressing tab moves the cursor to the main edit box. Thus to move between citation fields, one has to use the mouse - a colossal pain in the butt, in my opinion. Is it possible to change this to be more intuitive, to allow the tab key to move from one field to the next?
For what it's worth, I'm using Firefox 3 under Windows Vista. SchuminWeb ( Talk) 00:12, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
While attempting to revert some edits, I saw some very strange behavior from the "undo" button on the diff page; instead of just reversing the previous diff, it instead inserts a duplicate of the entire article in between the lead section and the first section header. Anyone know what's happening? rdfox 76 ( talk) 00:15, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
The Template:Topic by country currently includes inks to Georgia, which is a dab page. It should link to Georgia (country). I haven't got a clue how to fix it, and did ask on it's talk page back in April, but no-one appears to have noticed. Anyone here able to do it? DuncanHill ( talk) 02:07, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
Please add a descriptive css class like "fundraiserNotice" to the fundraiser notice (the one that's wasting a huge amount of screen real estate on everyone's screens on every article in the entire project for months at a time), so that we can block it with adblockers. I know I can block class siteNotice, but I don't want to block every site notice; just the fundraisers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.167.68.145 ( talk) 20:36, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
Not currently, but it's a generic framework for Wikimedia-wide central notices, so it could be in the future. — Werdna • talk 16:03, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
Please add a class that only applies to fundraisers. If centralNotice will be used for other things in the future, I obviously don't want to block it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.167.68.145 ( talk) 16:12, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
In case someone hasn't noticed it yet, we're now running MediaWiki r44485. The upgrade has brought about a bunch of changes, the most noticeable one being the renaming of the "Image" namespace to "File". Note that the old name "Image" will continue to work, so there's no need to go around changing existing links to use the new prefix. Some external tools and scripts may have broken due to the change: please report any breakage to their respective maintainers. — Ilmari Karonen ( talk) 23:26, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
This is the second time this week I've been unable to edit Wikipedia because someone I don't even know decides to become a vandal. I'm not sure how they can possibly confuse my IP with there's but I'm guessing it's an ISP issue. Does anyone know of a possible way to avoid this in the future? Or maybe tell me why it's happening? I know about using the secure page but that's just a pain. Cheers. Rehevkor ✉ 03:42, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
We need to be able to search for the first instance of a word, in all the history.
So, we want to find the first instance that say "Pilot" shows up in Cross-country skiing. We want to see this in history, so what we do is we search for history, but we want to see which version (or revision) this was typed, and thensaved, in. 96.53.149.117 ( talk) 08:12, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
I have been working on List of skin-related conditions, and want to (1) alphabetize the diseases under each header, and (2) alphabetize the synonym names for diseases within each parenthetical, and wanted to know if there was a bot, or some other automated way, to do this? I would prefer not to do it manually. Thanks again for all your help! kilbad ( talk) 04:34, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
User:Richard001 asked on the help desk about some of the links in his userpage not working. I checked it out with Firebug, and it's picking up the following code in the HTML source:
<div style="position: fixed; left: 40%; right: 10%; top: 10%; bottom: 10%;"/>
It's covering up exactly where two or three of his userboxes are, preventing you from clicking on the links in them (see the help desk post). The code does not show up in the source of the userpage given by Wikipedia [9] [10] or the HTML given by Special:ExpandTemplates. Where is this coming from (and why is it there)? Calvin 1998 ( t· c) 04:46, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
I need help controlling the size and posistion of the image on this page: TikiTag Please let me know what I can do on my talk page. -- Christopher Kraus ( talk) 01:10, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
The timestamp on the latest database dump says '2008-Oct-13'. The talk page of database download said the dumps were about weekly. What is happening? Lightmouse ( talk) 15:53, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. Are the downloads at predictable intervals? I am only interested in articles. Lightmouse ( talk) 16:09, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
I only need current page content so I can detect the string 'foobar' in an article today. I am sure there are lots of people running tasks just on page content regardless of history. A two month old dump is not an efficient source for detecting current content, particularly when the task needs repeating every few weeks. As the dump gets older, it becomes more effective to use the live server. Can we have a newer dump of current page without waiting for the full history dump?
Lightmouse (
talk)
I am looking for instances of broken date autoformatting where the year part of the date has been incorrectly redirected (e.g. [[April 11]], [[2005 in aviation|2005]]) thereby breaking autoformatting. On the basis of my current searches, I estimate that 1 article in every 1000 articles contains one or more of these errors. I have not used the database dump but I was under the impression that this would be an ideal first task. Lightmouse ( talk) 00:45, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
Yes, I also tried that with AWB and failed. Thanks anyway. Lightmouse ( talk) 11:20, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
This is another case where storing the "pipe" text in the `pagelinks` table would be helpful. Then it could be made visible in Special:Whatlinkshere/2005_in_aviation or whatever. — CharlotteWebb 00:39, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
Can someone help me with the table at Lancashire Council election, 2009? I would like the first column to be split in two - one colour box for the party, one column for the party name/link. I keep adding "!" or "|" but this just knocks the table out of synch. Any ideas? I half recall "col=2" or something...? Thanks doktorb words deeds 08:25, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
|
above the ending |}
that produced the odd-looking table. The "pipe" implies that there's another column to be added, and that's why an empty strip appeared on the right side. I believe you were not thinking of "merging cells" or the like right?Thanks for the help :) doktorb words deeds 19:10, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
If I'm logged out I can sign my user name, but if I'm logged in I can't. None of the other buttons on the bar above work either. I will now log out and sign, but follow the link to see my user page.-- 90.146.214.190 ( talk) 10:29, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, Splarka. It now works, even though it stopped working when I hadn't changed anything. I checked the references and unclicked/clicked a few things, so maybe it was just one of those things that happen, who knows? Thanks again.-- andreasegde ( talk) 12:11, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
Moved to MediaWiki talk:Common.css Happy‑ melon 20:08, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
When writing programming source code in articles, it seems pretty common to use the source tag for automatic syntax highlighting. However, the result is often not optimal. Consider the following example in the C++ programming language:
// ok, just a comment
#include <iostream> // not ok, this comment has a different color
int main() // ok, 'int' is a keyword
{
if(not false) // maybe ok, 'if' and 'false' are keywords, 'not' is a reserved word
std::cout << "this is a literal"; // not ok, 'cout' is not a keyword
}
I just wonder where these syntax highlighting rules are defined, and whether it's possible to have them changed. Ufretin ( talk) 03:02, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
What might be the cause of an internet page not showing the images when the page is loaded in a web browser? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Freshb28 ( talk • contribs) 15:57, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
thumb|right|screen cap of section edit links When did the section edit links get moved to the left of section headings? Thanks. – ukexpat ( talk) 05:16, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
collapsed to save space |
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|
Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but has anyone ever created a bot or whatever that counts or estimates the average number of references per article. Thanks. - Peregrine Fisher ( talk) ( contribs) 01:25, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
Every time i try to view this article, a "would you like to download this unknown file" prompt appears. I've cleared my cache i-dont-know how many times and even tried reinstalling internet explored and firefox. It doesn't matter. Can someone fix this? I can't even get access to the page to try. Buffered Input Output 14:23, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
Actually, it only works sometimes. it just worked for me now. Buffered Input Output 14:23, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
All of a sudden the Tables of Contents in articles and talk pages are collapsed. I'm not sure I like it. I don't see it as an option in my preferences. Is there a discussion of this change? ·:· Will Beback ·:· 21:44, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
I just noticed that all our images begin with "File:" now, rather than "Image:". Just curious (1) when this change was made, and (2) what effect does it have on me, who places and moves images sometimes but never does anything with non-image files? Nyttend ( talk) 01:43, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
File:
and Image:
prefixes are synonymous except that "File:...." is displayed when you go to an image page. See
bugzilla:44 and
rev:43639 for details.
Icewedge (
talk)
01:57, 12 December 2008 (UTC)Why was this change made? Will it affect the way images are displayed or are we to place them in articles as File: not Image: from now on? The Bald One White cat 13:34, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
Question: How does this fit in with the Media namespace? Media has seemed to be a synonym for Image for a long time, and now all three of them work (wgNamespaceNumber: 6, wgCanonicalNamespace: File). The weird thing is that if you access a page with the Image prefix it issues an HTTP 301 redirect to the corresponding File page but if you use Media, it doesn't. E.g., Image:Tile_Hill_train_550.jpg, Media:Tile_Hill_train_550.jpg. This sort of thing is critical for stats tracking, which needs to distinguish between actual views and mere redirects. Why/when/how was Media introduced anyway, and why is it different? • Anakin (talk) 15:22, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
I was going to post this at one of the various Help:Magic Words articles (on Wikipedia, Meta, and MediaWiki), but it seemed that no one had been to those pages in ages (1 year+), so I didn't think my question would be answered there. Magic Words ({{CURRENTTIME}, {{PAGENAME}}, etc.) trigger a function in the Wikimedia software to do something. I would like to propose a new Magic word, {{PAGEWIDTH}}. This function would use the javascript parameter window.innerWidth (on IE, document.documentElement.clientWidth or document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].clientWidth) to find the width of the window. This would be useful in many templates to determine the size of things such as images, tables, etc. If someone wanted to set an image to display at full width of a column in a page (say a 50% column), the user could use this magic word and a combination of expr functions to find out exactly how many pixels this image should be displayed at. The javascript code is shown below:
<script type="text/javascript"> <!-- // initially set to 600 (lowest resolution we need to worry about) in case none of it works var windowwidth = 600; // FF/Opera/IE7/Safari use window.innerWidth if (typeof window.innerWidth != 'undefined') { windowwidth = window.innerWidth, } // IE6 with a valid doctype as the first line in the document uses the following else if (typeof document.documentElement != 'undefined' && typeof document.documentElement.clientWidth != 'undefined' && document.documentElement.clientWidth != 0) { windowwidth = document.documentElement.clientWidth, } // older versions of IE use this else { windowwidth = document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].clientWidth, } document.write('windowwidth'); //--> </script>
The window width is now in the variable windowwidth and is outputted. -- Dudemanfellabra ( talk) 23:51, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
Not technically possible. — Werdna • talk 03:10, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
The <img> tag supports percentage-based widths, given that images are really the only use for this, it would make a lot more sense to change the image parsing code to accept a % width in addition to pixels, rather than a hacky JS-based magic word, that if used in an #expr would just break horribly for people with JS disabled. Mr. Z-man 17:17, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
Thank you. travb ( talk) 06:06, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
MediaWiki:aboutsite/pl reads O Wikipedia instead of O Wikipedii.
This should be fixed by adding
$wgGrammarForms'pl']['MS.lp']['Wikipedia' = 'Wikipedii';
to configuration settings.
-- Yecril ( talk) 18:09, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
I disagree. It is not a MediaWiki issue because Wikipedia is not a MediaWiki word. It would be insane to expect WikiMedia to support the declension of every possible site name in every possible language. -- Yecril ( talk) 09:05, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
Bugzilla:16669 -- Yecril ( talk) 11:20, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
In Special:LinkSearch, the Crosswiki linksearch link throws a 404 error. -- Enric Naval ( talk) 19:57, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
Would it be possible to create a gadget that permanently disables the watchlist noticecruft? For various technical and security reasons I am sometimes not using cookies or CSS when looking at my watchlist, and in particular, on a mobile device it is annoying to have to wade through the list of everybody's pet project just to get to my watchlist. The user interface should not be used to intrusively propagate notices, but until people get that point, can we please provide a work around. That will be much better than endless debates and edit warring over the notice-spam. Jehochman Talk 19:58, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
#watchlist-message { display:none; }
If your device loads javascript but not css, you could try brute force:
document.getElementById("watchlist-message").setAttribute("style", "display:none;");
However I can't imagine why this would be the case. — CharlotteWebb 05:14, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
For the life of me, I couldn't find the proper forum for asking this question, so I guess here has to do.
I have shapefiles of Oregon Legislative Assembly districts, which can be found at the very bottom of this page. I'm very certain that these files can be used to make vector maps, but I simply cannot find a method available to me in order to do that. I Google endlessly, and I find several shp2svg converters, but they're either not free for me to use, or impossible for me to figure out how to use.
So, I'd very much appreciate it if someone could help me figure out how to accomplish this task, or even volunteer to do it themselves. If no one here knows how to help, please tell me where I can go to find people who do. I'm really desperate! Äþelwulf Talk to me. 01:27, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
Is there currently a bot that builds a project watchlist? This would be a generated list of all the talk pages that our project templates are placed on, as well as the article or other types of pages the talk pages are attached to. WatchlistBot used to do it, and then JoshurBot did it, but I don't know which bot does it now (if there is such a bot). Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 05:59, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
Is there a way to look up recent changes to links listed on several pages, combined together? Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 18:13, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
Ok, I just got ended up on one of grawps unblock pages, again, A Nu Wikipedian. A Wiki Nupedian, which is why I'm here. If've you've ever come across one of these pages, you'll know how much of a bitch they are, they take ages to load, block up the browser, then you have to mess about typing the address to get to the history so you can delete it. If you haven't seen one, its a huge goats.cx image, along with other crap, all done using tables, and coloured cells, all adding up to about 2 million bytes in size. Now if you actually look at the code for these pages, it uses hundreds of these, <TD BGCOLOR=#6b4b2c>....</TD>.. Is there any possibility of limiting the number of times these can be used on a page somehow, as far as I know they are barely used anywhere else. Failing that, can anyone think of any other technical way of preventing the creation of these pages, if we can stop these grawp loses another "weapon"-- Jac16888 ( talk) 21:34, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
So many articles have page after page of minor edits, but is there, or could there be, a tool to allow one to see the expert or experts who had the most contributions to an article that really meets, or comes close to meeting, the standard for a good or featured article? Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 21:59, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
The drop down link menu for deletion bases when performing deletions is no longer automatically choosing the bases associated with the deletion tag, i.e., when you attempt to delete an article tagged with db-bio, the reason for deletion field no longer automatically places, "A7 Bio: No indication that the article may meet guidelines for inclusion". Anyone know what's causing this?-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 13:38, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
Does anyone know of a template or magic word that converts ISO 639 langauge codes into the English equivalent of the language (e.g. fr to French, de to German) etc. The magic word {{#language:}}
is the best I've found so far, but it converts to the local equivalent of the language (fr to français for example). —
Tivedshambo (
t/
c) (logged on as
Pek)
14:37, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
Might be a handy user-prefs option for the sidebar too. — CharlotteWebb 17:45, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
{{
Language}}
as an attempt to create that 2-D function discussed above.
Happy‑
melon
18:06, 17 December 2008 (UTC)Can anyone explain to me how this works? I'm working on some javascript in a file on my hard drive that would use this function, but I can't find it defined anywhere. I tried adding <script type="text/javascript" src="
http://upload.wikimedia.org/skins/common/wikibits.js?188">
(which appears in the source code of Wikipedia's main page) to my local file, but that doesn't change anything. I know the javascript works because when I add it as an onload function, everything works perfectly (i.e. <body onload="func()">
). The problem only occurs when I try to take it out of the body tag and add in the addOnloadHook() function. My only guess is that the function is defined somewhere else, and I just can't find it. If someone could post the code for this function or simple give me the link to the js file in which it is defined, that would be awesome. Thanks! --
Dudemanfellabra (
talk)
22:29, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
addOnloadHook
function is defined in
wikibits.js. It takes one argument, a function. All functions given as arguments to addOnloadHook
are called at the end of the <body> tag by another function from wikibits.js, runOnloadHook
. This is used for almost all scripts that need to access the
DOM, since many parts of these scripts need to be delayed until the page is done loading. Here's the code of the function:function addOnloadHook(hookFunct) {
// Allows add-on scripts to add onload functions
if(!doneOnloadHook) {
onloadFunctsonloadFuncts.length = hookFunct;
} else {
hookFunct(); // bug in MSIE script loading
}
}
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/skins/common/wikibits.js?188">
...
...
my code
...
...
addLoadEvent(ScreenInfo);
</script>
<body>
...
etc.
As stated above, you need the script at the end of the mediawiki <body> in yours:
<script type="text/javascript">if (window.runOnloadHook) runOnloadHook();</script>
Also, you may need to define some global variables above the wikibits.js load to prevent the code in it immediately executed from causing various errors. IIRC these are stylepath, wgContentLanguage and wgBreakFrames. Here is an example. -- Splarka ( rant) 08:09, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
I have never had problems viewing any parts of Wikipedia before (except perhaps some Unicode), but I recently switched to the green-and-black skin for Wikipedia, and since then I have been unable to view pages from the revision history of any article, on IE or Firefox, even after un-checking the gadget (and reverting to the default skin). Whenever I click on "Compare Selected Versions," "cur," or "last," it brings up a prompt asking me if I want to save the .PHP file or open it using a program from a list. I have tried several circuitous routes to opening it, but it seems my computer simply cannot recognize or handle the files. When I tell it to let Firefox or IE open it, it simply opens a new, blank tab giving the same prompt (and if I check the "always use selected program" box, then it keeps opening new blank tabs ad infinitum). Notepad opens it as a few words, URLs, and gibberish; when I try to load those URLs on IE, they cannot be decoded.
Worst of all, when I tried this on a completely different, school computer, I had the same result, so I suppose I'm doing it wrong.
I am not certain whether this problem is at all related to my use of the gadget, but the two seemed to occur simultaneously.
This is absolutely bizarre and incredibly frustrating; does anybody have any clue what is going on? Eebster the Great ( talk) 03:04, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
I just noticed when look at a picture that since the {{ Assessments}} template automatically links to the commons nom of the same page/file name. This causes a problem when a picture was nominated before the change, so now it links to commons:FPC/file:Image instead of commons:FPC/image:Image so you cannot get to the previous nom. Sorry if this is the wrong place to bring this up. – Jerry teps 09:11, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
Hmm, this only appears to happen on the commons page, not the wikipedia page... I think I should take this to commons but im not sure where to in commons. – Jerry teps 09:16, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
Is there a point to the three sets of includeonly's at Dewey Lemley? -- Pascal666 ( talk) 18:27, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
What's with the change from "image" to "file" for media? please place a {{ tb}} on m talk page when awnsered.-- Ipatrol ( talk) 20:01, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
I think I may have found a bug with the wiki software, but I wanted to ask people that probably know a little bit more about the subject than I do in case I'm doing something wrong instead of the software. On User:Dudemanfellabra/Sandbox2, I'm trying to get each column to display as inline-block. I can do this with divs (which is the current state), but this doesn't work in IE. IE only applies display:inline-block to tags that originally display inline (such as span). When I change the div of each column to a span, though, I get unexpected results. Instead of surrounding the entire column, the span is broken up and applied to each individual bit of text inside the column. After a little looking around, I came across what I think to be the culprit. The code entered into the editbox is first, followed by the actual HTML code rendered by the software (found by viewing the source of the page):
My code (with some extra line breaks so the page isn't stretched too far):
<span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
<!--FEATURED ARTICLES-->
<div style="background-color:#DAE5F2; border:1px solid #ccc; padding-left:7px">
[[image:Cscr-featured.svg|18px|Today's featured article]] '''[[Wikipedia:Today's featured article|Today's featured article]]'''</div>
<div style="padding:2px">{{Wikipedia:Today's featured article/{{#time:F j, Y}}}}
<!--FEATURED MEDIA-->
<div style="background-color:#DAE5F2; border:1px solid #ccc; padding-left:7px">
[[image:Emblem-camera.svg|20px|Today's featured media]] '''[[Wikipedia:Picture of the day|Today's featured media]]'''</div>
<div style="padding:2px"><!--New code to allow POTD to be displayed in one column instead of full page width-->{{User:Dudemanfellabra/Sandbox1}}</div>
<!--DID YOU KNOW-->
<div style="background-color:#DAE5F2; border:1px solid #ccc; padding-left:7px">
[[image:QA icon.svg|20px|Did you know]] '''[[Wikipedia:Did you know|Did you know]]'''</div>
<div style="padding:2px">{{Did you know}}</div>
</span>
And the output code (again with some extra line breaks so the page isn't stretched too far):
<div style="background-color:#DAE5F2; border:1px solid #ccc; padding-left:7px">
<span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
<a href="/wiki/File:Cscr-featured.svg" class="image" title="Today's featured article">
<img alt="Today's featured article" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Cscr-featured.svg/18px-Cscr-featured.svg.png" width="18" height="17" border="0" /></a> <b>
<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article">Today's featured article</a></b></span></div>
<div style="padding:2px">
<div style="float:left;margin-right:0.9em">
<p><span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
<a href="/wiki/File:Steve_Sandvoss_November_2008.jpg" class="image" title="Lead actor Steve Sandvoss stars as Elder Aaron Davis">
<img alt="Lead actor Steve Sandvoss stars as Elder Aaron Davis" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c0/Steve_Sandvoss_November_2008.jpg/100px-Steve_Sandvoss_November_2008.jpg" width="100" height="113" border="0" /></a></span></p>
</div>
<span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
<i><b><a href="/wiki/Latter_Days" title="Latter Days">Latter Days</a></b></i> is a <a href="/wiki/Gay" title="Gay">gay</a>
<a href="/wiki/Romantic_love" title="Romantic love" class="mw-redirect">romantic</a> <a href="/wiki/Drama" title="Drama">drama</a>
released in <a href="/wiki/2003_in_film" title="2003 in film">2003</a>. Set in <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los
Angeles</a>, <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>, it portrays the seduction of Aaron Davis, a <a href="/wiki
/Mormon" title="Mormon">Mormon</a> <a href="/wiki/Missionary_(LDS_Church)" title="Missionary (LDS Church)">missionary</a>, by Christian
Markelli, a party animal who falls in love with him. The film, written and directed by <a href="/wiki/C._Jay_Cox" title="C. Jay Cox">C.
Jay Cox</a>, stars <a href="/wiki/Steve_Sandvoss" title="Steve Sandvoss">Steve Sandvoss</a> <i>(pictured)</i> as Aaron, <a href="/wiki
/Wes_Ramsey" title="Wes Ramsey">Wes Ramsey</a> as Christian, <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Gordon-Levitt" title="Joseph Gordon-Levitt">Joseph
Gordon-Levitt</a> as Elder Ryder, and <a href="/wiki/Rebekah_Johnson" title="Rebekah Johnson">Rebekah Johnson</a> as Julie Taylor. <a
href="/wiki/Mary_Kay_Place" title="Mary Kay Place">Mary Kay Place</a>, <a href="/wiki/Amber_Benson" title="Amber Benson">Amber
Benson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jacqueline_Bisset" title="Jacqueline Bisset">Jacqueline Bisset</a> have supporting roles. <i>Latter
Days</i> premiered at the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_International_Gay_%26_Lesbian_Film_Festival" title="Philadelphia International
Gay & Lesbian Film Festival">Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival</a> on July 10, 2003. It was released
across America over the next 12 months, and was released, mostly at gay film festivals, in a few other countries. It was the first film
to openly show the clash between the principles of the <a href="/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints" title="The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints">Mormon church</a> and <a href="/wiki/Homosexuality"
title="Homosexuality">homosexuality</a>, and its exhibition in some states was <a href="/wiki/Polemic" title="Polemic">polemic</a>.
Various religious groups demanded that the movie be withdrawn from theatres and <a href="/wiki/DVD" title="DVD">DVD</a> stores under <a
href="/wiki/Boycott" title="Boycott">boycott</a> threats. The movie was not well received by film critics, although it was popular with
most film festival attendees. In 2004 T. Fabris made <i>Latter Days</i> into a novel, which was published by <a href="/wiki
/Alyson_Publications" title="Alyson Publications">Alyson Publications</a>. (<b><a href="/wiki/Latter_Days" title="Latter Days">more...
</a></b>)</span></div>
<p><span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
Recently featured: <a href="/wiki/LaRouche_criminal_trials" title="LaRouche criminal trials">LaRouche criminal trials</a> –
<a href="/wiki/Getting_It:_The_psychology_of_est" title="Getting It: The psychology of est">Getting It: The psychology of est</a> –
<a href="/wiki/Riverina" title="Riverina">Riverina</a></span></p>
<div align="right" class="noprint"><span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
<b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/December_2008" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December 2008">Archive</a></b> –
<b><a href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-article-l" class="extiw" title="mail:daily-article-l">By email</a></b> –
<b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_articles" title="Wikipedia:Featured articles">More featured articles...</a></b></span></div>
<div style="background-color:#DAE5F2; border:1px solid #ccc; padding-left:7px"><span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
<a href="/wiki/File:Emblem-camera.svg" class="image" title="Today's featured media">
<img alt="Today's featured media" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Emblem-camera.svg/20px-Emblem-camera.svg.png" width="20" height="20" border="0" /></a> 
<b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day">Today's featured media</a></b></span></div>
<div style="padding:2px">
<div class="floatleft"><span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
<a href="/wiki/File:Mammothterracetrees.jpg" class="image" title="Dead trees, Mammoth Hot Springs">
<img alt="Dead trees, Mammoth Hot Springs" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Mammothterracetrees.jpg/155px-Mammothterracetrees.jpg" width="155" height="160" border="0" /></a></span></div>
<p><span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">Dead
trees in the terraces of Mammoth Hot Springs, one of the <b><a href="/wiki/Geothermal_areas_of_Yellowstone" title="Geothermal areas of
Yellowstone">geothermal areas of Yellowstone National Park</a></b>, <a href="/wiki/Wyoming" title="Wyoming">Wyoming</a>, United States.
These trees grew during inactivity of the mineral-rich <a href="/wiki/Hot_spring" title="Hot spring">hot springs</a>, and were killed
when <a href="/wiki/Calcium_carbonate" title="Calcium carbonate">calcium carbonate</a> carried by spring water clogged the
<a href="/wiki/Vascular_tissue" title="Vascular tissue">vascular systems</a> of the trees. The same process also effectively preserves
the trees by preventing decay.</span></p>
<p><span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
<small>Photo credit: <a href="/wiki/User:Thegreenj" title="User:Thegreenj">Thegreenj</a></small></span></p>
<p><span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
Recently featured: <a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2008-12-16" title="Template:POTD/2008-12-16">Tunnel rat</a> -
<a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2008-12-15" title="Template:POTD/2008-12-15">Emperor Penguin</a> -
<a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2008-12-14" title="Template:POTD/2008-12-14">Tank schematic</a></span></p>
<div align="right"><span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
<b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2008">Archive</a></b> –
<b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured media...</a></b></span></div>
</div>
<div style="background-color:#DAE5F2; border:1px solid #ccc; padding-left:7px">
<span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
<a href="/wiki/File:QA_icon.svg" class="image" title="Did you know"><img alt="Did you know" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/QA_icon.svg/20px-QA_icon.svg.png" width="20" height="20" border="0" /></a> 
<b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Did_you_know" title="Wikipedia:Did you know">Did you know</a></b></span></div>
<div style="padding:2px">
<p><span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
<i>From Wikipedia's <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions">newest articles</a>:</i></span></p>
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
<p><span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
<a href="/wiki/File:LordHoweIslandPigeonByGeorgeRaper_cropped.jpg" class="image" title="A painting of the Lord Howe Island Pigeon by George Raper">
<img alt="A painting of the Lord Howe Island Pigeon by George Raper" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e8/LordHoweIslandPigeonByGeorgeRaper_cropped.jpg/66px-LordHoweIslandPigeonByGeorgeRaper_cropped.jpg" width="66" height="100" border="0" /></a></span></p>
</div>
<ul>
<li style="-moz-float-edge: content-box"><span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
... that no <a href="/wiki/Type_specimen" title="Type specimen" class="mw-redirect">type specimen</a> of the <b>
<a href="/wiki/Lord_Howe_Island_Pigeon" title="Lord Howe Island Pigeon">Lord Howe Island Pigeon</a></b> exists, as it was described
from a painting <i>(pictured)</i> by <a href="/wiki/George_Raper" title="George Raper">George Raper</a>?</span></li>
<li style="-moz-float-edge: content-box"><span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
... that during the trial for the <b><a href="/wiki/Toa_Payoh_ritual_murders" title="Toa Payoh ritual murders">Toa Payoh ritual murders</a></b> in
<a href="/wiki/Singapore" title="Singapore">Singapore</a>, Howard Cashin received death threats for defending the accused, Adrian Lim?</span></li>
<li style="-moz-float-edge: content-box"><span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
... that the <b><a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Phillies_(NFL)" title="Philadelphia Phillies (NFL)">Philadelphia Phillies</a></b> was the name of a football team in the
<b><a href="/wiki/National_Football_League_(1902)" title="National Football League (1902)">first National Football League</a></b>?</span></li>
<li style="-moz-float-edge: content-box"><span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
... that <a href="/wiki/Opera" title="Opera">operatic</a> <a href="/wiki/Soprano" title="Soprano">soprano</a> <b><a href="/wiki/Romilda_Pantaleoni" title="Romilda Pantaleoni">Romilda Pantaleoni</a></b>
sang the role of Desdemona in the original 1887 production of <a href="/wiki/Giuseppe_Verdi" title="Giuseppe Verdi">Giuseppe Verdi</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Otello" title="Otello">Otello</a></i>?</span></li>
<li style="-moz-float-edge: content-box"><span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
... that <b><a href="/wiki/Charter_08" title="Charter 08">Charter 08</a></b>, a declaration signed by hundreds of Chinese intellectuals, was modeled on
<a href="/wiki/Czechoslovakia" title="Czechoslovakia">Czechoslovakian</a> <a href="/wiki/Charter_77" title="Charter 77">Charter 77</a>?</span></li>
<li style="-moz-float-edge: content-box"><span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
... that <b><a href="/wiki/Charles_D%27Arcy" title="Charles D'Arcy">Archbishop D'Arcy</a></b> of <a href="/wiki/Diocese_of_Armagh_(Church_of_Ireland)" title="Diocese of Armagh (Church of Ireland)">Armagh</a>
was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Senate_of_Southern_Ireland" title="Senate of Southern Ireland">Senate of Southern Ireland</a> and a supporter of the <a href="/wiki/Eugenics" title="Eugenics">Eugenics</a> movement?</span></li>
<li style="-moz-float-edge: content-box"><span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
... that <a href="/wiki/Gene_Krupa" title="Gene Krupa">Gene Krupa</a> was asked to be in the 1947 <a href="/wiki/Race_film" title="Race film" class="mw-redirect">race film</a>
<i><b><a href="/wiki/Boy!_What_a_Girl!" title="Boy! What a Girl!">Boy! What a Girl!</a></b></i> when he stopped by to visit cast member <a href="/wiki/Sid_Catlett" title="Sid Catlett">Sid Catlett</a> on the film's set?</span></li>
<li style="-moz-float-edge: content-box"><span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
... that <a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway">Norwegian</a> jurist and peace activist <b><a href="/wiki/Fredrik_Heffermehl" title="Fredrik Heffermehl">Fredrik Heffermehl</a></b>
claimed that 45 percent of <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="Nobel Peace Prize">Nobel Peace Prize</a> awards after 1945 are "illegal"?<br clear="all" />
<br /></span>
<div style="text-align: right;" class="noprint"><span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
<b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions">Archive</a></b> –
<b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Your_first_article" title="Wikipedia:Your first article">Start a new article</a></b> –
<b><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Did_you_know" title="Template talk:Did you know">Nominate an article</a></b></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
As you can see, the span should surround all the inner divs, but is instead applied to every element in the column. I went a step further also and tested my code in an external editor, and it worked fine. The column was 60% width, the divs were all in the right place, etc. Back in the wiki editbox, I tried to figure out what was causing the problem, so I played around with the display tag, and found that anytime a value is set to display (in this case inline-block), the code breaks; removing the display parameter fixes the problem. I think there may be a bug with wiki software and how it interprets the span tag with a display parameter. -- Dudemanfellabra ( talk) 21:09, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta name="generator" content=
"HTML Tidy for Linux/x86 (vers 11 February 2007), see www.w3.org" />
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<span style=
"width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
<!--FEATURED ARTICLES--></span>
<div style="background-color:#DAE5F2; border:1px solid #ccc; padding-left:7px">
<span style=
"width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
[[image:Cscr-featured.svg|18px|Today's featured article]] '''[[Wikipedia:Today's
featured article|Today's featured article]]'''</span>
</div>
<div style="padding:2px">
<span style=
"width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
{{Wikipedia:Today's featured article/{{#time:F j, Y}}}} <!--FEATURED MEDIA--></span>
<div style="background-color:#DAE5F2; border:1px solid #ccc; padding-left:7px">
<span style=
"width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
[[image:Emblem-camera.svg|20px|Today's featured media]] '''[[Wikipedia:Picture of
the day|Today's featured media]]'''</span>
</div>
<div style="padding:2px">
<span style=
"width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
<!--New code to allow POTD to be displayed in one column instead of full page width-->{{User:Dudemanfellabra/Sandbox1}}</span>
</div><!--DID YOU KNOW-->
<div style="background-color:#DAE5F2; border:1px solid #ccc; padding-left:7px">
<span style=
"width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
[[image:QA icon.svg|20px|Did you know]] '''[[Wikipedia:Did you know|Did you
know]]'''</span>
</div>
<div style="padding:2px">
<span style=
"width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
{{Did you know}}</span>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Thoughts on how to get Template:Sockpuppet category to work with usernames that include an apostrophe such as Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of guns'nroseslover and Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of I'll TELL You What Time It Is!? -- Pascal666 ( talk) 23:34, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
Templates combination :
multi-listen start multi-listen item multi-listen end
all are very short and intuitive. All havn't the html LI element in their sources. But put together, an LI element was rendered into the output, inside the UL element. Just as this page: [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Baoshan_Sheng] Could someone explain this to me please? Because I can't use these template in my own wiki site. Thank you very much. Baoshan Sheng ( talk) 03:58, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
Baoshan Sheng ( talk) 07:18, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
{{
listen}}
instead. I suggest you do the same.
Happy‑
melon
10:16, 19 December 2008 (UTC)Here's what I'd like to do. On the first occurrence of my reference, I want to have the "base" ref which contains the ISBN, author, coauthor, etc. For example:
<ref name="lopez">{{cite book |author=Donald S. Lopez Jr |title=Dictionary of American Library Biography: Second Supplement |publisher=Libraries Unlimited |location=Littleton, Colo |year=2003 |isbn=1-56308-868-1 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=}}</ref>
On proceeding uses, I'd like to use the above reference multiple times while citing different pages. So for example, we could have a (currently nonexistent) template "importref" which takes all of the already populated reference fields from "lopez", adding (or modifying) a field called "pages" to that reference and creating a new one. So for example,
{{importref|lopez|pages=112}}
This would produce a {{reflist}} item and [bracketed] inline notation for both references. Is it possible to do this using existing citation templates? This modular approach avoids having to create new references when adding/changing only one or two fields in a reference, while utilizing all of the already populated reference fields such as ISBN, author, coauthor. ← Spidern → 16:13, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
<ref>Lopez, page 42</ref>
, <ref>Lopez, page 83</ref>
, etc. This is the way it's done in many featured articles. —
Tivedshambo (
t/
c)
18:17, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,<ref name=foo name2=p22>Page 22</ref> consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.<ref name=foo name2=p14>Page 14</ref> Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.<ref name=bar name2=vol1>Volume 1</ref> Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur.<ref name=baz>Other ref</ref> Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident,<ref name=bar name2=vol3>Volume 3</ref> sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.<ref name=foo name2=p150>Page 150</ref> <ref name=foo>Book, by Joe Bloggs</ref> <ref name=bar>Other book, by Other Author</ref>
And the references would output something like:
There is already a patch written that would bring this functionality: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13127 If someone properly tests it, and pushes the developers, I'm sure it can be implemented relatively quickly, now that this patch exists. -- TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 18:34, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
<ref name="foo" append="page::28" />
<ref name="foo" append="volume::7" />
<ref name="foo" append="time::2:48" />
<ref name="foo" alias="foo2">page=28</ref>
<ref name="foo2" />
Another approach to this—one I like and have used, but I know some people aren't as happy with it—is to put repeatedly-referenced bibliographical information in a separate "References" section using {{ citation}}, then use <ref> elements that contain {{ Harvnb}} references; the footnotes are gathered by {{ reflist}} in a "Notes" section above the "References". Then each footnote contains page information and links successfully to the bibliographical information. See Blackface for an example of this technique. - Jmabel | Talk 19:42, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
How I work around this: I either create independent references, or, more commonly, list all the pages in a single reference and put HTML comments with the exact page number right after each use, e.g. <ref name="book">Author, Book, Publisher, Year, p. 5, 120, 511</ref><!-- page 5-->, <ref name="book" /><!--p. 511-->, ect.
davidwr/(
talk)/(
contribs)/(
e-mail)
21:53, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
I think it would be preferable to link to the main reference, rather than the individual usage of it. Anyway, it should be possible to get the right behavior without adding another ID field; but we would need to number the references, as we do now. To modify the example above:
<ref name=foo>Book, by Joe Bloggs</ref>
<ref name=bar>Other book, by Other Author</ref>
And add a new syntax, i.e. <ref name=foo detail="Page 22"/> which could render something like
And the references would output something like:
Steve Sanbeg ( talk) 23:32, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
<ref name=foo SomeOtherId=bar>stuff-that-should-really-be-tag-content</ref>
than it is <ref name=foo SomeOtherId="stuff-that-should-really-be-tag-content"/>
?
Happy‑
melon
23:43, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
<ref name=foo>
somewhere to hold the "main" reference that all the sub-refs are subordinate to (not that that's an insurmountable problem). BTW, you could use double quotes without escaping, either as {{#tag:ref||name=foo|whatever="see, quotes!"}}
or <ref name=foo whatever='"see, quotes!"'>
.
Anomie
⚔
00:13, 19 December 2008 (UTC)How do I link to a section on a Ref Desk page that is current but in such a way that it will still be valid when the day gets archived? -- SGBailey ( talk) 23:33, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
{{#ifexist: Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 December 17 | [[Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 December 17#Phenomenological life]] | [[Wikipedia:Reference desk/Humanities#Phenomenological life]] }}
which renders as
Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 December 17#Phenomenological life. This should continue to work if the page is correctly archived.This page contains discussions that have been archived from Village pump (technical). Please do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to revive any of these discussions, either start a new thread or use the talk page associated with that topic.
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My guess is that the answer to this is no, but I thought I'd ask on the off-chance: is there any way to track the edits of a range of IPs? For example, could I track all edits made by anyone in the 123.456.X.X range (that I just made up for this example)? Talk Islander 15:05, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
I really love the autocomplete function added to the search box recently (well, maybe not that recently now...), but one objection I have to the way it works is that when you right click on a popup option it doesn't let you do anything (e.g. open in new tab, which would surely be helpful), but opens it just as if you had left-clicked it. Richard001 ( talk) 00:47, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
if (window.os_eventMouseup){
var os_eventMouseup_old = os_eventMouseup
os_eventMouseup = function(srcId,e){
e = e || window.event
var r
if (e.shiftKey || (e.button>0)) r = os_mapsrcId
if (r){
var frm = document.getElementById(r.searchform)
var inp = document.getElementById(r.searchbox)
var oldT = frm.target, oldV = inp.value
frm.target = '_blank'
}
os_eventMouseup_old(srcId,e)
if (r){ frm.target = ''; inp.value = oldV }
}
}
I don't follow so well... is that something I can add to my .js page here? I would really prefer a new tab than a new window too, having lots of windows isn't really my style of browsing (I suppose it's quite similar, though I can't move the windows around on the taskbar (possibly because it was designed by MS) and I can't go to 'undo close window' or 'recently closed windows). Is it possible for a higher level technical fix for this, e.g. changing the MediaWiki software behind it? Richard001 ( talk) 03:25, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
I inserted the the code importScript("User:Smith609/toolbox.js");
onto
my monobook page, which was supposed to activate the citation widget in my browser, but it does not. I have reported this issue with the script creator,
User:Smith609, but he was unable to resolve my problem. --
Crackthewhip775 (
talk)
06:02, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
the blocking template sometimes does not include </div> in the end so that the colour of the template to stop. see [1] > [2] if you know the source of the template, tell them... -- CuteHappyBrute ( talk) 15:13, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
How do script changes reach users if they don't clear their cache? Many people use my script by adding the following to their monobook: importScript('User:Lightmouse/monobook.js/script.js'); It allows them to delink dates, reformat dates to US or international format, and to add metric units. Sometimes I will update it but the update doesn't have any effect on a user on the other side of the planet. When I get such a report, I tell them to clear their cache and that usually works. However, I don't know how my changes reach them if they don't clear their cache. Please can somebody explain this to me. Lightmouse ( talk) 10:09, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
That would be very useful. I took a look at those .js files but couldn't work out exactly which piece of code I should copy. Can you make a suggestion? Lightmouse ( talk) 16:35, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
window.location.reload(true)
). It is all in the subroutine WikEdAutoUpdate.
Cacycle (
talk)
01:10, 3 December 2008 (UTC)Thanks. I have created User:Lightmouse/monobook.js/cacheupdatetest script.js and copied WikEdAutoUpdate into it. Presumably, it would be better if I replace 'WikEd' with a different name. Are there any other changes I need to make it work for my users? 09:30, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
I have made some changes but I am way out of my skill zone and I can't see the way ahead. I may have to give up. Lightmouse ( talk) 14:06, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
it may have been raised before but on a long article there's big blue nothing down the left column of the page. Why not use a floating frame so that the stuff always there on the left column at the top comes down as you browse. Mccready ( talk) 00:11, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
Background: {{ Wikification progress}} is a template that shows the backlog of articles that need to be wikified. It shows the number of articles in each of the monthly backlogs (e.g. "Category:Wikify by <month> <year>"), recently tagged articles (‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Articles that need to be wikified), and the entire backlog (‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:All pages needing to be wikified). The number of articles in the entire backlog equals the sum of the monthly backlogs plus the recently tagged articles.
Problem: I've just checked the template, and as of 3 December 2008, 23:59 (UTC) the article count for the entire backlog is 15,422, while the sum of the constituent backlogs is a whopping 16,022. That's a discrepancy of (exactly) 600 articles!
Following previous discussion on a suspiciously similar problem, I suspect that there is something wrong with the PAGESINCATEGORY count that is displayed in the template for one or more of the categories (these numbers do equal the page counts displayed in the categories themselves, though).
Can someone please verify if my suspicions are true. If so, then what is the best way of displaying the actual number of articles in the category? If not, then what else can be causing such a large discrepancy (I've already checked every template I could think of that includes wikification categories)?
Cheers. – Liveste ( talk • edits) 00:33, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
I'm using IE7, and I see overlapping text in the Khwarezm article.
Does anybody else see this? 66.57.190.166 ( talk) 20:28, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
Am I taking crazy pills or have many of the editing interfaces changed recently? For instance, when editing a page, the following bitey text appears:
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource. DO NOT SUBMIT COPYRIGHTED WORK WITHOUT PERMISSION!
Similarly, clicking on a redlink now shows the text
You have followed a link to a page that does not exist yet.
To create the page, start typing in the box below (see the help page for more info).
If you are here by mistake, click your browser's back button.
Did I miss a discussion somewhere? Skomorokh 21:51, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I have been asking here and there about some problems graphics in Timeline have. The graphics I am making in Spanish wikipedia do not show data. Some times they show the bars and other times not. I read this is caused by a bug, but I don´t understand any about that. Somebody could help me? Thanks to everybody. This is the graphic. (If you can not see it, you have to click on edit):
Thanks again!--
Eliasjorge4 (
talk)
04:37, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
All the old versions of this image return 403 (HTTP forbidden) errors. There are no corresponding entries in the deletion log. Seems to be an isolated occurrence - I poked around the same directory using Google Image Search and couldn't reproduce the problem. But is it? MER-C 12:36, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
-> WP:AN#Major UK ISPs reduced to using 2 IP addresses -- Gurch ( talk) 16:00, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
I've noticed that when using the secure site ( https://secure.wikimedia.org/...), there are images (the WP Egg, banners, etc) and other content that are linked from the regular non-SSL site. This causes a pop-up box in IE at every page load, stating that the page contains secure as well as insecure content, and do you want to display the non-secure content. In Firefox it throws a security warning icon, but at least doesn't force you to acknowledge a popup box at every page load. Would it be possible to address the http:// links from the secure site, so all content is loaded from the secure site? It would make using the secure site more appealing under the IE browser. Arakunem Talk 20:55, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
A standardised method exists for Romanising [Mandarin] Chinese text, known as
Pinyin. This uses Latin characters with accents. Currently setting the language code using {{
lang|zh-Latn|...}}
for such text, may cause some browser combinations to only read as far as the zh
(Chinese) and select a double-width font; if this happens the result is ugly. The solution is probably to override the font (back to the default) using CSS. Assistance and guidance on the changes needed would be welcomed. One error case noted by another editor at
Template talk:Zh-p#zh-Latn is Firefox 3 on [a] WinXP/SP2 desktop. Leaving the text without a lang=
tag means that the span is assumed to be English, which it is not. —
Sladen (
talk)
23:36, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
I access wikipedia via my work machine, which is subject to all sorts of restrictions and can't access mediawiki.org, and my home machine which isn't restricted. i never changed my skin, so it's still classic i guess. anyway, my home machine still shows it, but my work machine all of a sudden shows wikipedia in kind of a flat text mode; no bars across the top with the views or my personal tools, no bar down the left with the navigation links, search, interaction links, toobox; instead they are all tacked onto the bottom of the page in a vertical set of plain text links. also, the navigation popup which used to show the beginning of the page content and links to the various views on mouseover a link doesn't work on the work machine, but still works at home. so.. did the css or something get moved over to another domain, like mediwiki? is there any fix? thanks. Gzuckier ( talk) 00:45, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
-- Gurch ( talk) 01:54, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
I am trying to use the Template:GeoGroupTemplate and it works just fine on the article page with the coordinate listing. I asked a query on the talk page about using the list on one article, and the maps on a different article, and was replied to but I don't understand still. Usage of geogroup template on one page, listing on separate page The article North Sea is very long. I would like a geographical features map on the page using coordinates so the places are rather precise on the map of the North Sea, so the coordinates are all listed at Geography of the North Sea and the geogroup template there is awesome. Just need it at North Sea as well. Also asked at Wikipedia:WikiProjekt Georeferenzierung/Wikipedia-World/en Kind Regards SriMesh | talk 02:33, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
I was told to come here after asking elsewhere. Apologies if I'm in the wrong place yet again. I was wondering if someone could help me, or point me to someone or somewhere that could, convert a database dump to multiple, non-treed base-raw html pages. I've already followed the somewhat bland instructions at Wikipedia:Database but never get quite the results I needed.
I have
http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20080724/enwiki-20080724-pages-meta-current.xml.bz2. I want to convert the uncompressed code (using ANY programs) to multiple html pages. The result I'm looking for at the end is to have pages the equivalent of going to every page and clicking save:as... and just have a bunch of html files in a folder. Am I missing something?
Lostinlodos (
talk)
03:24, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
There's a non-showing graphic (new, I guess — I've seen the little box for it for about a week) at the very top of the international Wikipedia home page. It doesn't show up on either of my browsers (AOL or IE6, on a PC). What's the problem, and when is it going to be fixed? Thanks. Softlavender ( talk) 05:10, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
I'm here to mention an archived topic that nobody seemed to respond. It's about simplifying a template code, which has obvious repetitions. I wonder if that issue is a bit too "technical" for the guys here. Hytar ( talk) 22:15, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
I don't care how the tabs are arranged, be they 3 by 2 or 6 by 1, but 6 tabs, instead of 4 needs to be implemented.
What I am talking about is that, say, for this page, we have "project page", "discussion", "edit this page", and "history", at the top. These are for navigational, editing, forensic, and learning purposes. Now, this isn't very user friendly, and people have argued that having 6 instead of the 4 we have now would make it more clumsy. And that if anons made an account, they could use CSS to implement this. Well some anons don't like making accounts. And it is more clumsy right now, and confusing, where by pressing the discussion tab, and then edit, it is counter-intuitive. People also lose thoughts, depending on their connection speed, by having to wait for extra pages to load. It's even hard to understand with the 4 tabs switch over system that is used right now.
Another problem are the templates: going to Template:Navbox Province of Italy, at its top left corner, you will see v • d • e. This too needs the 3 other analogs. You can put them in 3 by 2, or 6 by 1, but for the same reasons above, specifically for server resource times/loading times and userfriendlyness/navigational ease. 96.53.149.117 ( talk) 12:46, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
At {{ LGV Est}} there are a couple of external links that contain spaces; what can I do to make them render properly? Chris DHDR 13:21, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
Something Rdunn ( talk · contribs) discovered [7]: When you type "wiki:" into search box, it redirects to http://c2.com/cgi/wiki instead of showing the "bad title" message. Anyone have an idea why that happens? Oo Regards So Why 12:51, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
It's easy to find out which pages link to a non-existent article, but how do I find out which pages are in a non-existent category? Specifically, I went to category:Coordinate geometry and clicked on "edit" and then on "what links here" and found nothing, although there was an article that bore that category tag. (The article was law of tangents, from which I removed the tag because it doesn't fit even if there were such a category.) Michael Hardy ( talk) 23:45, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
I'm creating a new thread for that topic because it died out back then, but no one objected either. Do people think those ideas should be implemented? I think it would improve preview, which is already a very useful tool. -- Menti sock 16:30, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
I see nothing wrong with the current preview. WP is not a text editor, it is an encyclopedia. If after saving you don't like what you get, just go to history and hit undo. 199.125.109.90 ( talk) 16:27, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
In the discussion at Rupee-dollar conversion, I proposed copying the U.S. Government historical tables for the rupee-dollar conversion multiplier to be used in a monetary conversion template. However, it would be easier if Wikipedia could tap into free external conversion tables (such as available at U.S. Federal Reserve) for internal conversion template usage. Is there a way to do this with Wikipedia software? -- Suntag ☼ 14:16, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
I would like to set up my own Wiki site (not to create an encyclopedia!) and wonder what is the best way. I would anticipate that, at most, it would have 1,000 contributors and perhaps 50 concurrent users. Should I have a company host the MediaWiki software for me? Is there a company that allows you to "spawn" a whole new MediaWiki installation? Any advice on the best way to go, would be appreciated. Twotinsofbeans ( talk) 16:08, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
Templates like {{
Mozart operas}}, which currently use <br />
to separate list items, should be marked up as proper lists, with the bullet styling removed to preserve the current appearance.
I've created a sandbox version at
User:Pigsonthewing/scratchpad, using list-style-type:none
on the parent wrapper, but that doesn't work and I can't figure out how to use styling in wiki mark-up to remove bullets. Can anyone assist, please? (Feel free to edit my scratchpad page.)
Once the style is perfected, I intend to ask for it to be moved to the main stylesheet, and applied with a class. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 00:29, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
<ul style="list-style-type:none; list-style-image:none">
<li>''[[Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebotes]]'' (1767)</li>
<li>''[[Apollo et Hyacinthus]]'' (1767)</li>
<li>''[[Bastien und Bastienne]]'' (1768)</li>
</ul>
I have put some time into removing every instance of the string "United World Chart" from Wikipedia, and, so far as I can tell, there is only one occurrence left (legitimate, because it's in quoted text inside a reference). I got rid of the remaining 1200 last week. However, when I use MediaWiki search to look for "United World Chart" to make sure people don't add references back in, I consistently get 40 results, day after day. How long will it take for the search function to catch up to reality? On the flip side, how long between the time that someone adds it back and it showing up in the search?— Kww( talk) 03:58, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
Worked for 39 out of 40 articles. However, a search for "United World Chart" in quotes still returns World as a result, and I cannot see why.— Kww( talk) 12:55, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
I'm sure this has probably been discussed before somewhere, but would it be possible for the section title that is automatically generated in an edit summary to be a link to that section header? ~ JohnnyMrNinja 21:06, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
When I edit Wikipedia articles, I often do it from a text-only environment using lynx. Because I do not have an account with Wikipedia (and have no intention of having one), this prevents me from posting any new external links because I cannot pass the anti-spam captcha test.
I have no problem with this, but I do get annoyed when I am told that my edit includes new external links but it does not.
Just now I tried to add a response to the current version of a Reference Desk item, WP:RD/E#NFL playoffs, and teams with 2 ties, and was incorrectly told that my edit included new external links. I then backed up, edited the item again, and tried saving it without adding or changing any content -- and I was still told that my edit included new external links.
What is going on here and can it be fixed?
In case it matters, the current oldid for WP:RD/E as I write this is 256982623; of course I can't post a direct link to that version of the page because a URL would be treated as an external link.
(Please direct any replies here and not to the talk page for my IP address, which is shared.)
-- 208.76.104.133 ( talk) 06:06, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
Is there possibly no way to find out which templates (transclusions utilizing includeonly
) are populating a particular category? --
Menti
sock
09:44, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
Is it possible to use height the same way as one can use width to control the size of cells in tables?
For example, when using sub tables in a parent table, setting the sub table width to 100% will cause the sub table to be "evenly" spread across the cell in the parent table. However, setting height to 100% does not cause the sub table to be spread in any way up and down the cell in the parent table.
Setting the height of the sub table to a set number of pixels does cause the sub table to be a minimum height, but this does not cause the rows in the sub table to be spread at all over the full height.
Setting the height to a percentage does not seem to work at all, using either the deprecated height="100%" or using style="height:100%;".
Any ideas on how to get a table's rows to be spread evenly vertically over the available height?
Peet Ern ( talk) 10:29, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
Have pop-ups stopped working for anyone else, or just for me? DuncanHill ( talk) 23:06, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
An IP just added a large "History" section to Mountainair, New Mexico, which I've reverted because it's a copyvio of Mountainair's website. Being an administrator, I decided to delete the revision (can't hurt), so I deleted the article and proceeded to restore it: before restoring I clicked just the copyvio revision to restore and then selected "Invert selection", so I know that I told it to restore all revisions except the copyvio. However, upon restoring it, I see the edit still there (done at 22:48, 10 December 2008 by 168.103.113.99), so I ended up reverting it instead. Can anyone explain why the edit didn't stay deleted, even though I told it to restore only the other edits? Nyttend ( talk) 23:09, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
Is there any way for the watchlist to add the "top" tag as is done on the other similar lists such as "my contributions" and "user contributions" It would be a great help to see at a glance that the edit was the most recient edit on a page
Examples:
Dbiel ( Talk) 19:17, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
Something that I just discovered, and felt should be noted here is that this request was actually posted over 1-1/2 years ago and remains as a new feature request to the WikiMedia Software. see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8482 Dbiel ( Talk) 03:16, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
I asked this question mid-November at
Wikipedia talk:Colours but to no response. Maybe it will get better reception here:
What are the
hex codes for the colors shown in Wikipedia
internal links?
-
What color is the link to this unvisited page?
-
What color is the link to this non-exsistant page?
I noticed these colors are different from <font color="blue"> and <font color="red">. Also, what are the colors to visited, existing pages (they're more of a purple color)? Thanks for your help,
Arbitrarily0 (
talk)
03:01, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
All of a sudden thumbnail generation for the attached image is broken. This isn't good etc. Any suggestions for a fix? Noodle snacks ( talk) 12:20, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
Starting today, whenever I attempt to edit a page on English Wikipedia, I get an intrusion attempt alert from Norton Internet Security. (Commons and German Wikipedia appear unaffected.) The name of the "risk" is "HTTP Acrobat PDF Suspicious File Download". I suspect it's an error in the risk definition, causing it to by chance match something on the edit page, but I can't be sure. Nothing obvious on the edit page fails to work. But it sure is annoying. Any ideas? Powers T 14:46, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
Heh, didn't think to look on the admin noticeboard for a technical issue. Sorry for the duplication. Anyway, I tend to agree that this is not something serious (I'm still editing here after all!), but something changed, and if it's on our end we should investigate. Powers T 16:11, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
Symantec info on this error. No idea why we are seeing a false positive here, I suspect they just borked their signatures for this type of attack. -- TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 16:48, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
(outdent) In fact Orla from Symantec stated in the afformention Community board: "Hello, I can confirm that the issues you've been seeing, where NIS erroneously triggers the detection "HTTP Acrobat PDF Suspicious File Download" on some legitimate websites, have been resolved. Corrected signatures have been created and are now available for download via LiveUpdate." They then appologized and indicated that they take these false reports seriously. -- CyclePat ( talk) 19:12, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
When using the "easy cite" button (
) on the edit screen and then picking a citation template, when one hits the tab key, it acts in a way that's less than intuitive. Currently, when one is in a field and then presses the tab key, rather than skip to the field immediately to the right (from the left field) or skip down and to the left field (from the right field), pressing tab moves the cursor to the main edit box. Thus to move between citation fields, one has to use the mouse - a colossal pain in the butt, in my opinion. Is it possible to change this to be more intuitive, to allow the tab key to move from one field to the next?
For what it's worth, I'm using Firefox 3 under Windows Vista. SchuminWeb ( Talk) 00:12, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
While attempting to revert some edits, I saw some very strange behavior from the "undo" button on the diff page; instead of just reversing the previous diff, it instead inserts a duplicate of the entire article in between the lead section and the first section header. Anyone know what's happening? rdfox 76 ( talk) 00:15, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
The Template:Topic by country currently includes inks to Georgia, which is a dab page. It should link to Georgia (country). I haven't got a clue how to fix it, and did ask on it's talk page back in April, but no-one appears to have noticed. Anyone here able to do it? DuncanHill ( talk) 02:07, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
Please add a descriptive css class like "fundraiserNotice" to the fundraiser notice (the one that's wasting a huge amount of screen real estate on everyone's screens on every article in the entire project for months at a time), so that we can block it with adblockers. I know I can block class siteNotice, but I don't want to block every site notice; just the fundraisers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.167.68.145 ( talk) 20:36, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
Not currently, but it's a generic framework for Wikimedia-wide central notices, so it could be in the future. — Werdna • talk 16:03, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
Please add a class that only applies to fundraisers. If centralNotice will be used for other things in the future, I obviously don't want to block it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.167.68.145 ( talk) 16:12, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
In case someone hasn't noticed it yet, we're now running MediaWiki r44485. The upgrade has brought about a bunch of changes, the most noticeable one being the renaming of the "Image" namespace to "File". Note that the old name "Image" will continue to work, so there's no need to go around changing existing links to use the new prefix. Some external tools and scripts may have broken due to the change: please report any breakage to their respective maintainers. — Ilmari Karonen ( talk) 23:26, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
This is the second time this week I've been unable to edit Wikipedia because someone I don't even know decides to become a vandal. I'm not sure how they can possibly confuse my IP with there's but I'm guessing it's an ISP issue. Does anyone know of a possible way to avoid this in the future? Or maybe tell me why it's happening? I know about using the secure page but that's just a pain. Cheers. Rehevkor ✉ 03:42, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
We need to be able to search for the first instance of a word, in all the history.
So, we want to find the first instance that say "Pilot" shows up in Cross-country skiing. We want to see this in history, so what we do is we search for history, but we want to see which version (or revision) this was typed, and thensaved, in. 96.53.149.117 ( talk) 08:12, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
I have been working on List of skin-related conditions, and want to (1) alphabetize the diseases under each header, and (2) alphabetize the synonym names for diseases within each parenthetical, and wanted to know if there was a bot, or some other automated way, to do this? I would prefer not to do it manually. Thanks again for all your help! kilbad ( talk) 04:34, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
User:Richard001 asked on the help desk about some of the links in his userpage not working. I checked it out with Firebug, and it's picking up the following code in the HTML source:
<div style="position: fixed; left: 40%; right: 10%; top: 10%; bottom: 10%;"/>
It's covering up exactly where two or three of his userboxes are, preventing you from clicking on the links in them (see the help desk post). The code does not show up in the source of the userpage given by Wikipedia [9] [10] or the HTML given by Special:ExpandTemplates. Where is this coming from (and why is it there)? Calvin 1998 ( t· c) 04:46, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
I need help controlling the size and posistion of the image on this page: TikiTag Please let me know what I can do on my talk page. -- Christopher Kraus ( talk) 01:10, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
The timestamp on the latest database dump says '2008-Oct-13'. The talk page of database download said the dumps were about weekly. What is happening? Lightmouse ( talk) 15:53, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. Are the downloads at predictable intervals? I am only interested in articles. Lightmouse ( talk) 16:09, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
I only need current page content so I can detect the string 'foobar' in an article today. I am sure there are lots of people running tasks just on page content regardless of history. A two month old dump is not an efficient source for detecting current content, particularly when the task needs repeating every few weeks. As the dump gets older, it becomes more effective to use the live server. Can we have a newer dump of current page without waiting for the full history dump?
Lightmouse (
talk)
I am looking for instances of broken date autoformatting where the year part of the date has been incorrectly redirected (e.g. [[April 11]], [[2005 in aviation|2005]]) thereby breaking autoformatting. On the basis of my current searches, I estimate that 1 article in every 1000 articles contains one or more of these errors. I have not used the database dump but I was under the impression that this would be an ideal first task. Lightmouse ( talk) 00:45, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
Yes, I also tried that with AWB and failed. Thanks anyway. Lightmouse ( talk) 11:20, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
This is another case where storing the "pipe" text in the `pagelinks` table would be helpful. Then it could be made visible in Special:Whatlinkshere/2005_in_aviation or whatever. — CharlotteWebb 00:39, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
Can someone help me with the table at Lancashire Council election, 2009? I would like the first column to be split in two - one colour box for the party, one column for the party name/link. I keep adding "!" or "|" but this just knocks the table out of synch. Any ideas? I half recall "col=2" or something...? Thanks doktorb words deeds 08:25, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
|
above the ending |}
that produced the odd-looking table. The "pipe" implies that there's another column to be added, and that's why an empty strip appeared on the right side. I believe you were not thinking of "merging cells" or the like right?Thanks for the help :) doktorb words deeds 19:10, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
If I'm logged out I can sign my user name, but if I'm logged in I can't. None of the other buttons on the bar above work either. I will now log out and sign, but follow the link to see my user page.-- 90.146.214.190 ( talk) 10:29, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, Splarka. It now works, even though it stopped working when I hadn't changed anything. I checked the references and unclicked/clicked a few things, so maybe it was just one of those things that happen, who knows? Thanks again.-- andreasegde ( talk) 12:11, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
Moved to MediaWiki talk:Common.css Happy‑ melon 20:08, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
When writing programming source code in articles, it seems pretty common to use the source tag for automatic syntax highlighting. However, the result is often not optimal. Consider the following example in the C++ programming language:
// ok, just a comment
#include <iostream> // not ok, this comment has a different color
int main() // ok, 'int' is a keyword
{
if(not false) // maybe ok, 'if' and 'false' are keywords, 'not' is a reserved word
std::cout << "this is a literal"; // not ok, 'cout' is not a keyword
}
I just wonder where these syntax highlighting rules are defined, and whether it's possible to have them changed. Ufretin ( talk) 03:02, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
What might be the cause of an internet page not showing the images when the page is loaded in a web browser? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Freshb28 ( talk • contribs) 15:57, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
thumb|right|screen cap of section edit links When did the section edit links get moved to the left of section headings? Thanks. – ukexpat ( talk) 05:16, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
collapsed to save space |
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|
Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but has anyone ever created a bot or whatever that counts or estimates the average number of references per article. Thanks. - Peregrine Fisher ( talk) ( contribs) 01:25, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
Every time i try to view this article, a "would you like to download this unknown file" prompt appears. I've cleared my cache i-dont-know how many times and even tried reinstalling internet explored and firefox. It doesn't matter. Can someone fix this? I can't even get access to the page to try. Buffered Input Output 14:23, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
Actually, it only works sometimes. it just worked for me now. Buffered Input Output 14:23, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
All of a sudden the Tables of Contents in articles and talk pages are collapsed. I'm not sure I like it. I don't see it as an option in my preferences. Is there a discussion of this change? ·:· Will Beback ·:· 21:44, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
I just noticed that all our images begin with "File:" now, rather than "Image:". Just curious (1) when this change was made, and (2) what effect does it have on me, who places and moves images sometimes but never does anything with non-image files? Nyttend ( talk) 01:43, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
File:
and Image:
prefixes are synonymous except that "File:...." is displayed when you go to an image page. See
bugzilla:44 and
rev:43639 for details.
Icewedge (
talk)
01:57, 12 December 2008 (UTC)Why was this change made? Will it affect the way images are displayed or are we to place them in articles as File: not Image: from now on? The Bald One White cat 13:34, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
Question: How does this fit in with the Media namespace? Media has seemed to be a synonym for Image for a long time, and now all three of them work (wgNamespaceNumber: 6, wgCanonicalNamespace: File). The weird thing is that if you access a page with the Image prefix it issues an HTTP 301 redirect to the corresponding File page but if you use Media, it doesn't. E.g., Image:Tile_Hill_train_550.jpg, Media:Tile_Hill_train_550.jpg. This sort of thing is critical for stats tracking, which needs to distinguish between actual views and mere redirects. Why/when/how was Media introduced anyway, and why is it different? • Anakin (talk) 15:22, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
I was going to post this at one of the various Help:Magic Words articles (on Wikipedia, Meta, and MediaWiki), but it seemed that no one had been to those pages in ages (1 year+), so I didn't think my question would be answered there. Magic Words ({{CURRENTTIME}, {{PAGENAME}}, etc.) trigger a function in the Wikimedia software to do something. I would like to propose a new Magic word, {{PAGEWIDTH}}. This function would use the javascript parameter window.innerWidth (on IE, document.documentElement.clientWidth or document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].clientWidth) to find the width of the window. This would be useful in many templates to determine the size of things such as images, tables, etc. If someone wanted to set an image to display at full width of a column in a page (say a 50% column), the user could use this magic word and a combination of expr functions to find out exactly how many pixels this image should be displayed at. The javascript code is shown below:
<script type="text/javascript"> <!-- // initially set to 600 (lowest resolution we need to worry about) in case none of it works var windowwidth = 600; // FF/Opera/IE7/Safari use window.innerWidth if (typeof window.innerWidth != 'undefined') { windowwidth = window.innerWidth, } // IE6 with a valid doctype as the first line in the document uses the following else if (typeof document.documentElement != 'undefined' && typeof document.documentElement.clientWidth != 'undefined' && document.documentElement.clientWidth != 0) { windowwidth = document.documentElement.clientWidth, } // older versions of IE use this else { windowwidth = document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].clientWidth, } document.write('windowwidth'); //--> </script>
The window width is now in the variable windowwidth and is outputted. -- Dudemanfellabra ( talk) 23:51, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
Not technically possible. — Werdna • talk 03:10, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
The <img> tag supports percentage-based widths, given that images are really the only use for this, it would make a lot more sense to change the image parsing code to accept a % width in addition to pixels, rather than a hacky JS-based magic word, that if used in an #expr would just break horribly for people with JS disabled. Mr. Z-man 17:17, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
Thank you. travb ( talk) 06:06, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
MediaWiki:aboutsite/pl reads O Wikipedia instead of O Wikipedii.
This should be fixed by adding
$wgGrammarForms'pl']['MS.lp']['Wikipedia' = 'Wikipedii';
to configuration settings.
-- Yecril ( talk) 18:09, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
I disagree. It is not a MediaWiki issue because Wikipedia is not a MediaWiki word. It would be insane to expect WikiMedia to support the declension of every possible site name in every possible language. -- Yecril ( talk) 09:05, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
Bugzilla:16669 -- Yecril ( talk) 11:20, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
In Special:LinkSearch, the Crosswiki linksearch link throws a 404 error. -- Enric Naval ( talk) 19:57, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
Would it be possible to create a gadget that permanently disables the watchlist noticecruft? For various technical and security reasons I am sometimes not using cookies or CSS when looking at my watchlist, and in particular, on a mobile device it is annoying to have to wade through the list of everybody's pet project just to get to my watchlist. The user interface should not be used to intrusively propagate notices, but until people get that point, can we please provide a work around. That will be much better than endless debates and edit warring over the notice-spam. Jehochman Talk 19:58, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
#watchlist-message { display:none; }
If your device loads javascript but not css, you could try brute force:
document.getElementById("watchlist-message").setAttribute("style", "display:none;");
However I can't imagine why this would be the case. — CharlotteWebb 05:14, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
For the life of me, I couldn't find the proper forum for asking this question, so I guess here has to do.
I have shapefiles of Oregon Legislative Assembly districts, which can be found at the very bottom of this page. I'm very certain that these files can be used to make vector maps, but I simply cannot find a method available to me in order to do that. I Google endlessly, and I find several shp2svg converters, but they're either not free for me to use, or impossible for me to figure out how to use.
So, I'd very much appreciate it if someone could help me figure out how to accomplish this task, or even volunteer to do it themselves. If no one here knows how to help, please tell me where I can go to find people who do. I'm really desperate! Äþelwulf Talk to me. 01:27, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
Is there currently a bot that builds a project watchlist? This would be a generated list of all the talk pages that our project templates are placed on, as well as the article or other types of pages the talk pages are attached to. WatchlistBot used to do it, and then JoshurBot did it, but I don't know which bot does it now (if there is such a bot). Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 05:59, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
Is there a way to look up recent changes to links listed on several pages, combined together? Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 18:13, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
Ok, I just got ended up on one of grawps unblock pages, again, A Nu Wikipedian. A Wiki Nupedian, which is why I'm here. If've you've ever come across one of these pages, you'll know how much of a bitch they are, they take ages to load, block up the browser, then you have to mess about typing the address to get to the history so you can delete it. If you haven't seen one, its a huge goats.cx image, along with other crap, all done using tables, and coloured cells, all adding up to about 2 million bytes in size. Now if you actually look at the code for these pages, it uses hundreds of these, <TD BGCOLOR=#6b4b2c>....</TD>.. Is there any possibility of limiting the number of times these can be used on a page somehow, as far as I know they are barely used anywhere else. Failing that, can anyone think of any other technical way of preventing the creation of these pages, if we can stop these grawp loses another "weapon"-- Jac16888 ( talk) 21:34, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
So many articles have page after page of minor edits, but is there, or could there be, a tool to allow one to see the expert or experts who had the most contributions to an article that really meets, or comes close to meeting, the standard for a good or featured article? Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 21:59, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
The drop down link menu for deletion bases when performing deletions is no longer automatically choosing the bases associated with the deletion tag, i.e., when you attempt to delete an article tagged with db-bio, the reason for deletion field no longer automatically places, "A7 Bio: No indication that the article may meet guidelines for inclusion". Anyone know what's causing this?-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 13:38, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
Does anyone know of a template or magic word that converts ISO 639 langauge codes into the English equivalent of the language (e.g. fr to French, de to German) etc. The magic word {{#language:}}
is the best I've found so far, but it converts to the local equivalent of the language (fr to français for example). —
Tivedshambo (
t/
c) (logged on as
Pek)
14:37, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
Might be a handy user-prefs option for the sidebar too. — CharlotteWebb 17:45, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
{{
Language}}
as an attempt to create that 2-D function discussed above.
Happy‑
melon
18:06, 17 December 2008 (UTC)Can anyone explain to me how this works? I'm working on some javascript in a file on my hard drive that would use this function, but I can't find it defined anywhere. I tried adding <script type="text/javascript" src="
http://upload.wikimedia.org/skins/common/wikibits.js?188">
(which appears in the source code of Wikipedia's main page) to my local file, but that doesn't change anything. I know the javascript works because when I add it as an onload function, everything works perfectly (i.e. <body onload="func()">
). The problem only occurs when I try to take it out of the body tag and add in the addOnloadHook() function. My only guess is that the function is defined somewhere else, and I just can't find it. If someone could post the code for this function or simple give me the link to the js file in which it is defined, that would be awesome. Thanks! --
Dudemanfellabra (
talk)
22:29, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
addOnloadHook
function is defined in
wikibits.js. It takes one argument, a function. All functions given as arguments to addOnloadHook
are called at the end of the <body> tag by another function from wikibits.js, runOnloadHook
. This is used for almost all scripts that need to access the
DOM, since many parts of these scripts need to be delayed until the page is done loading. Here's the code of the function:function addOnloadHook(hookFunct) {
// Allows add-on scripts to add onload functions
if(!doneOnloadHook) {
onloadFunctsonloadFuncts.length = hookFunct;
} else {
hookFunct(); // bug in MSIE script loading
}
}
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/skins/common/wikibits.js?188">
...
...
my code
...
...
addLoadEvent(ScreenInfo);
</script>
<body>
...
etc.
As stated above, you need the script at the end of the mediawiki <body> in yours:
<script type="text/javascript">if (window.runOnloadHook) runOnloadHook();</script>
Also, you may need to define some global variables above the wikibits.js load to prevent the code in it immediately executed from causing various errors. IIRC these are stylepath, wgContentLanguage and wgBreakFrames. Here is an example. -- Splarka ( rant) 08:09, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
I have never had problems viewing any parts of Wikipedia before (except perhaps some Unicode), but I recently switched to the green-and-black skin for Wikipedia, and since then I have been unable to view pages from the revision history of any article, on IE or Firefox, even after un-checking the gadget (and reverting to the default skin). Whenever I click on "Compare Selected Versions," "cur," or "last," it brings up a prompt asking me if I want to save the .PHP file or open it using a program from a list. I have tried several circuitous routes to opening it, but it seems my computer simply cannot recognize or handle the files. When I tell it to let Firefox or IE open it, it simply opens a new, blank tab giving the same prompt (and if I check the "always use selected program" box, then it keeps opening new blank tabs ad infinitum). Notepad opens it as a few words, URLs, and gibberish; when I try to load those URLs on IE, they cannot be decoded.
Worst of all, when I tried this on a completely different, school computer, I had the same result, so I suppose I'm doing it wrong.
I am not certain whether this problem is at all related to my use of the gadget, but the two seemed to occur simultaneously.
This is absolutely bizarre and incredibly frustrating; does anybody have any clue what is going on? Eebster the Great ( talk) 03:04, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
I just noticed when look at a picture that since the {{ Assessments}} template automatically links to the commons nom of the same page/file name. This causes a problem when a picture was nominated before the change, so now it links to commons:FPC/file:Image instead of commons:FPC/image:Image so you cannot get to the previous nom. Sorry if this is the wrong place to bring this up. – Jerry teps 09:11, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
Hmm, this only appears to happen on the commons page, not the wikipedia page... I think I should take this to commons but im not sure where to in commons. – Jerry teps 09:16, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
Is there a point to the three sets of includeonly's at Dewey Lemley? -- Pascal666 ( talk) 18:27, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
What's with the change from "image" to "file" for media? please place a {{ tb}} on m talk page when awnsered.-- Ipatrol ( talk) 20:01, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
I think I may have found a bug with the wiki software, but I wanted to ask people that probably know a little bit more about the subject than I do in case I'm doing something wrong instead of the software. On User:Dudemanfellabra/Sandbox2, I'm trying to get each column to display as inline-block. I can do this with divs (which is the current state), but this doesn't work in IE. IE only applies display:inline-block to tags that originally display inline (such as span). When I change the div of each column to a span, though, I get unexpected results. Instead of surrounding the entire column, the span is broken up and applied to each individual bit of text inside the column. After a little looking around, I came across what I think to be the culprit. The code entered into the editbox is first, followed by the actual HTML code rendered by the software (found by viewing the source of the page):
My code (with some extra line breaks so the page isn't stretched too far):
<span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
<!--FEATURED ARTICLES-->
<div style="background-color:#DAE5F2; border:1px solid #ccc; padding-left:7px">
[[image:Cscr-featured.svg|18px|Today's featured article]] '''[[Wikipedia:Today's featured article|Today's featured article]]'''</div>
<div style="padding:2px">{{Wikipedia:Today's featured article/{{#time:F j, Y}}}}
<!--FEATURED MEDIA-->
<div style="background-color:#DAE5F2; border:1px solid #ccc; padding-left:7px">
[[image:Emblem-camera.svg|20px|Today's featured media]] '''[[Wikipedia:Picture of the day|Today's featured media]]'''</div>
<div style="padding:2px"><!--New code to allow POTD to be displayed in one column instead of full page width-->{{User:Dudemanfellabra/Sandbox1}}</div>
<!--DID YOU KNOW-->
<div style="background-color:#DAE5F2; border:1px solid #ccc; padding-left:7px">
[[image:QA icon.svg|20px|Did you know]] '''[[Wikipedia:Did you know|Did you know]]'''</div>
<div style="padding:2px">{{Did you know}}</div>
</span>
And the output code (again with some extra line breaks so the page isn't stretched too far):
<div style="background-color:#DAE5F2; border:1px solid #ccc; padding-left:7px">
<span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
<a href="/wiki/File:Cscr-featured.svg" class="image" title="Today's featured article">
<img alt="Today's featured article" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Cscr-featured.svg/18px-Cscr-featured.svg.png" width="18" height="17" border="0" /></a> <b>
<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article">Today's featured article</a></b></span></div>
<div style="padding:2px">
<div style="float:left;margin-right:0.9em">
<p><span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
<a href="/wiki/File:Steve_Sandvoss_November_2008.jpg" class="image" title="Lead actor Steve Sandvoss stars as Elder Aaron Davis">
<img alt="Lead actor Steve Sandvoss stars as Elder Aaron Davis" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c0/Steve_Sandvoss_November_2008.jpg/100px-Steve_Sandvoss_November_2008.jpg" width="100" height="113" border="0" /></a></span></p>
</div>
<span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
<i><b><a href="/wiki/Latter_Days" title="Latter Days">Latter Days</a></b></i> is a <a href="/wiki/Gay" title="Gay">gay</a>
<a href="/wiki/Romantic_love" title="Romantic love" class="mw-redirect">romantic</a> <a href="/wiki/Drama" title="Drama">drama</a>
released in <a href="/wiki/2003_in_film" title="2003 in film">2003</a>. Set in <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los
Angeles</a>, <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>, it portrays the seduction of Aaron Davis, a <a href="/wiki
/Mormon" title="Mormon">Mormon</a> <a href="/wiki/Missionary_(LDS_Church)" title="Missionary (LDS Church)">missionary</a>, by Christian
Markelli, a party animal who falls in love with him. The film, written and directed by <a href="/wiki/C._Jay_Cox" title="C. Jay Cox">C.
Jay Cox</a>, stars <a href="/wiki/Steve_Sandvoss" title="Steve Sandvoss">Steve Sandvoss</a> <i>(pictured)</i> as Aaron, <a href="/wiki
/Wes_Ramsey" title="Wes Ramsey">Wes Ramsey</a> as Christian, <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Gordon-Levitt" title="Joseph Gordon-Levitt">Joseph
Gordon-Levitt</a> as Elder Ryder, and <a href="/wiki/Rebekah_Johnson" title="Rebekah Johnson">Rebekah Johnson</a> as Julie Taylor. <a
href="/wiki/Mary_Kay_Place" title="Mary Kay Place">Mary Kay Place</a>, <a href="/wiki/Amber_Benson" title="Amber Benson">Amber
Benson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jacqueline_Bisset" title="Jacqueline Bisset">Jacqueline Bisset</a> have supporting roles. <i>Latter
Days</i> premiered at the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_International_Gay_%26_Lesbian_Film_Festival" title="Philadelphia International
Gay & Lesbian Film Festival">Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival</a> on July 10, 2003. It was released
across America over the next 12 months, and was released, mostly at gay film festivals, in a few other countries. It was the first film
to openly show the clash between the principles of the <a href="/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints" title="The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints">Mormon church</a> and <a href="/wiki/Homosexuality"
title="Homosexuality">homosexuality</a>, and its exhibition in some states was <a href="/wiki/Polemic" title="Polemic">polemic</a>.
Various religious groups demanded that the movie be withdrawn from theatres and <a href="/wiki/DVD" title="DVD">DVD</a> stores under <a
href="/wiki/Boycott" title="Boycott">boycott</a> threats. The movie was not well received by film critics, although it was popular with
most film festival attendees. In 2004 T. Fabris made <i>Latter Days</i> into a novel, which was published by <a href="/wiki
/Alyson_Publications" title="Alyson Publications">Alyson Publications</a>. (<b><a href="/wiki/Latter_Days" title="Latter Days">more...
</a></b>)</span></div>
<p><span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
Recently featured: <a href="/wiki/LaRouche_criminal_trials" title="LaRouche criminal trials">LaRouche criminal trials</a> –
<a href="/wiki/Getting_It:_The_psychology_of_est" title="Getting It: The psychology of est">Getting It: The psychology of est</a> –
<a href="/wiki/Riverina" title="Riverina">Riverina</a></span></p>
<div align="right" class="noprint"><span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
<b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/December_2008" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December 2008">Archive</a></b> –
<b><a href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-article-l" class="extiw" title="mail:daily-article-l">By email</a></b> –
<b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_articles" title="Wikipedia:Featured articles">More featured articles...</a></b></span></div>
<div style="background-color:#DAE5F2; border:1px solid #ccc; padding-left:7px"><span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
<a href="/wiki/File:Emblem-camera.svg" class="image" title="Today's featured media">
<img alt="Today's featured media" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Emblem-camera.svg/20px-Emblem-camera.svg.png" width="20" height="20" border="0" /></a> 
<b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day">Today's featured media</a></b></span></div>
<div style="padding:2px">
<div class="floatleft"><span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
<a href="/wiki/File:Mammothterracetrees.jpg" class="image" title="Dead trees, Mammoth Hot Springs">
<img alt="Dead trees, Mammoth Hot Springs" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Mammothterracetrees.jpg/155px-Mammothterracetrees.jpg" width="155" height="160" border="0" /></a></span></div>
<p><span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">Dead
trees in the terraces of Mammoth Hot Springs, one of the <b><a href="/wiki/Geothermal_areas_of_Yellowstone" title="Geothermal areas of
Yellowstone">geothermal areas of Yellowstone National Park</a></b>, <a href="/wiki/Wyoming" title="Wyoming">Wyoming</a>, United States.
These trees grew during inactivity of the mineral-rich <a href="/wiki/Hot_spring" title="Hot spring">hot springs</a>, and were killed
when <a href="/wiki/Calcium_carbonate" title="Calcium carbonate">calcium carbonate</a> carried by spring water clogged the
<a href="/wiki/Vascular_tissue" title="Vascular tissue">vascular systems</a> of the trees. The same process also effectively preserves
the trees by preventing decay.</span></p>
<p><span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
<small>Photo credit: <a href="/wiki/User:Thegreenj" title="User:Thegreenj">Thegreenj</a></small></span></p>
<p><span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
Recently featured: <a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2008-12-16" title="Template:POTD/2008-12-16">Tunnel rat</a> -
<a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2008-12-15" title="Template:POTD/2008-12-15">Emperor Penguin</a> -
<a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2008-12-14" title="Template:POTD/2008-12-14">Tank schematic</a></span></p>
<div align="right"><span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
<b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/December_2008" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 2008">Archive</a></b> –
<b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured media...</a></b></span></div>
</div>
<div style="background-color:#DAE5F2; border:1px solid #ccc; padding-left:7px">
<span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
<a href="/wiki/File:QA_icon.svg" class="image" title="Did you know"><img alt="Did you know" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/QA_icon.svg/20px-QA_icon.svg.png" width="20" height="20" border="0" /></a> 
<b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Did_you_know" title="Wikipedia:Did you know">Did you know</a></b></span></div>
<div style="padding:2px">
<p><span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
<i>From Wikipedia's <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions">newest articles</a>:</i></span></p>
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;">
<p><span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
<a href="/wiki/File:LordHoweIslandPigeonByGeorgeRaper_cropped.jpg" class="image" title="A painting of the Lord Howe Island Pigeon by George Raper">
<img alt="A painting of the Lord Howe Island Pigeon by George Raper" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e8/LordHoweIslandPigeonByGeorgeRaper_cropped.jpg/66px-LordHoweIslandPigeonByGeorgeRaper_cropped.jpg" width="66" height="100" border="0" /></a></span></p>
</div>
<ul>
<li style="-moz-float-edge: content-box"><span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
... that no <a href="/wiki/Type_specimen" title="Type specimen" class="mw-redirect">type specimen</a> of the <b>
<a href="/wiki/Lord_Howe_Island_Pigeon" title="Lord Howe Island Pigeon">Lord Howe Island Pigeon</a></b> exists, as it was described
from a painting <i>(pictured)</i> by <a href="/wiki/George_Raper" title="George Raper">George Raper</a>?</span></li>
<li style="-moz-float-edge: content-box"><span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
... that during the trial for the <b><a href="/wiki/Toa_Payoh_ritual_murders" title="Toa Payoh ritual murders">Toa Payoh ritual murders</a></b> in
<a href="/wiki/Singapore" title="Singapore">Singapore</a>, Howard Cashin received death threats for defending the accused, Adrian Lim?</span></li>
<li style="-moz-float-edge: content-box"><span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
... that the <b><a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Phillies_(NFL)" title="Philadelphia Phillies (NFL)">Philadelphia Phillies</a></b> was the name of a football team in the
<b><a href="/wiki/National_Football_League_(1902)" title="National Football League (1902)">first National Football League</a></b>?</span></li>
<li style="-moz-float-edge: content-box"><span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
... that <a href="/wiki/Opera" title="Opera">operatic</a> <a href="/wiki/Soprano" title="Soprano">soprano</a> <b><a href="/wiki/Romilda_Pantaleoni" title="Romilda Pantaleoni">Romilda Pantaleoni</a></b>
sang the role of Desdemona in the original 1887 production of <a href="/wiki/Giuseppe_Verdi" title="Giuseppe Verdi">Giuseppe Verdi</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Otello" title="Otello">Otello</a></i>?</span></li>
<li style="-moz-float-edge: content-box"><span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
... that <b><a href="/wiki/Charter_08" title="Charter 08">Charter 08</a></b>, a declaration signed by hundreds of Chinese intellectuals, was modeled on
<a href="/wiki/Czechoslovakia" title="Czechoslovakia">Czechoslovakian</a> <a href="/wiki/Charter_77" title="Charter 77">Charter 77</a>?</span></li>
<li style="-moz-float-edge: content-box"><span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
... that <b><a href="/wiki/Charles_D%27Arcy" title="Charles D'Arcy">Archbishop D'Arcy</a></b> of <a href="/wiki/Diocese_of_Armagh_(Church_of_Ireland)" title="Diocese of Armagh (Church of Ireland)">Armagh</a>
was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Senate_of_Southern_Ireland" title="Senate of Southern Ireland">Senate of Southern Ireland</a> and a supporter of the <a href="/wiki/Eugenics" title="Eugenics">Eugenics</a> movement?</span></li>
<li style="-moz-float-edge: content-box"><span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
... that <a href="/wiki/Gene_Krupa" title="Gene Krupa">Gene Krupa</a> was asked to be in the 1947 <a href="/wiki/Race_film" title="Race film" class="mw-redirect">race film</a>
<i><b><a href="/wiki/Boy!_What_a_Girl!" title="Boy! What a Girl!">Boy! What a Girl!</a></b></i> when he stopped by to visit cast member <a href="/wiki/Sid_Catlett" title="Sid Catlett">Sid Catlett</a> on the film's set?</span></li>
<li style="-moz-float-edge: content-box"><span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
... that <a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway">Norwegian</a> jurist and peace activist <b><a href="/wiki/Fredrik_Heffermehl" title="Fredrik Heffermehl">Fredrik Heffermehl</a></b>
claimed that 45 percent of <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="Nobel Peace Prize">Nobel Peace Prize</a> awards after 1945 are "illegal"?<br clear="all" />
<br /></span>
<div style="text-align: right;" class="noprint"><span style="width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
<b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions">Archive</a></b> –
<b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Your_first_article" title="Wikipedia:Your first article">Start a new article</a></b> –
<b><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Did_you_know" title="Template talk:Did you know">Nominate an article</a></b></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
As you can see, the span should surround all the inner divs, but is instead applied to every element in the column. I went a step further also and tested my code in an external editor, and it worked fine. The column was 60% width, the divs were all in the right place, etc. Back in the wiki editbox, I tried to figure out what was causing the problem, so I played around with the display tag, and found that anytime a value is set to display (in this case inline-block), the code breaks; removing the display parameter fixes the problem. I think there may be a bug with wiki software and how it interprets the span tag with a display parameter. -- Dudemanfellabra ( talk) 21:09, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta name="generator" content=
"HTML Tidy for Linux/x86 (vers 11 February 2007), see www.w3.org" />
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<span style=
"width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
<!--FEATURED ARTICLES--></span>
<div style="background-color:#DAE5F2; border:1px solid #ccc; padding-left:7px">
<span style=
"width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
[[image:Cscr-featured.svg|18px|Today's featured article]] '''[[Wikipedia:Today's
featured article|Today's featured article]]'''</span>
</div>
<div style="padding:2px">
<span style=
"width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
{{Wikipedia:Today's featured article/{{#time:F j, Y}}}} <!--FEATURED MEDIA--></span>
<div style="background-color:#DAE5F2; border:1px solid #ccc; padding-left:7px">
<span style=
"width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
[[image:Emblem-camera.svg|20px|Today's featured media]] '''[[Wikipedia:Picture of
the day|Today's featured media]]'''</span>
</div>
<div style="padding:2px">
<span style=
"width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
<!--New code to allow POTD to be displayed in one column instead of full page width-->{{User:Dudemanfellabra/Sandbox1}}</span>
</div><!--DID YOU KNOW-->
<div style="background-color:#DAE5F2; border:1px solid #ccc; padding-left:7px">
<span style=
"width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
[[image:QA icon.svg|20px|Did you know]] '''[[Wikipedia:Did you know|Did you
know]]'''</span>
</div>
<div style="padding:2px">
<span style=
"width:60%; border:1px solid #ccc; background-color:#FCFCFC; vertical-align:top; padding:2px; display:inline-block">
{{Did you know}}</span>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Thoughts on how to get Template:Sockpuppet category to work with usernames that include an apostrophe such as Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of guns'nroseslover and Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of I'll TELL You What Time It Is!? -- Pascal666 ( talk) 23:34, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
Templates combination :
multi-listen start multi-listen item multi-listen end
all are very short and intuitive. All havn't the html LI element in their sources. But put together, an LI element was rendered into the output, inside the UL element. Just as this page: [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Baoshan_Sheng] Could someone explain this to me please? Because I can't use these template in my own wiki site. Thank you very much. Baoshan Sheng ( talk) 03:58, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
Baoshan Sheng ( talk) 07:18, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
{{
listen}}
instead. I suggest you do the same.
Happy‑
melon
10:16, 19 December 2008 (UTC)Here's what I'd like to do. On the first occurrence of my reference, I want to have the "base" ref which contains the ISBN, author, coauthor, etc. For example:
<ref name="lopez">{{cite book |author=Donald S. Lopez Jr |title=Dictionary of American Library Biography: Second Supplement |publisher=Libraries Unlimited |location=Littleton, Colo |year=2003 |isbn=1-56308-868-1 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=}}</ref>
On proceeding uses, I'd like to use the above reference multiple times while citing different pages. So for example, we could have a (currently nonexistent) template "importref" which takes all of the already populated reference fields from "lopez", adding (or modifying) a field called "pages" to that reference and creating a new one. So for example,
{{importref|lopez|pages=112}}
This would produce a {{reflist}} item and [bracketed] inline notation for both references. Is it possible to do this using existing citation templates? This modular approach avoids having to create new references when adding/changing only one or two fields in a reference, while utilizing all of the already populated reference fields such as ISBN, author, coauthor. ← Spidern → 16:13, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
<ref>Lopez, page 42</ref>
, <ref>Lopez, page 83</ref>
, etc. This is the way it's done in many featured articles. —
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Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,<ref name=foo name2=p22>Page 22</ref> consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.<ref name=foo name2=p14>Page 14</ref> Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.<ref name=bar name2=vol1>Volume 1</ref> Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur.<ref name=baz>Other ref</ref> Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident,<ref name=bar name2=vol3>Volume 3</ref> sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.<ref name=foo name2=p150>Page 150</ref> <ref name=foo>Book, by Joe Bloggs</ref> <ref name=bar>Other book, by Other Author</ref>
And the references would output something like:
There is already a patch written that would bring this functionality: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13127 If someone properly tests it, and pushes the developers, I'm sure it can be implemented relatively quickly, now that this patch exists. -- TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 18:34, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
<ref name="foo" append="page::28" />
<ref name="foo" append="volume::7" />
<ref name="foo" append="time::2:48" />
<ref name="foo" alias="foo2">page=28</ref>
<ref name="foo2" />
Another approach to this—one I like and have used, but I know some people aren't as happy with it—is to put repeatedly-referenced bibliographical information in a separate "References" section using {{ citation}}, then use <ref> elements that contain {{ Harvnb}} references; the footnotes are gathered by {{ reflist}} in a "Notes" section above the "References". Then each footnote contains page information and links successfully to the bibliographical information. See Blackface for an example of this technique. - Jmabel | Talk 19:42, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
How I work around this: I either create independent references, or, more commonly, list all the pages in a single reference and put HTML comments with the exact page number right after each use, e.g. <ref name="book">Author, Book, Publisher, Year, p. 5, 120, 511</ref><!-- page 5-->, <ref name="book" /><!--p. 511-->, ect.
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I think it would be preferable to link to the main reference, rather than the individual usage of it. Anyway, it should be possible to get the right behavior without adding another ID field; but we would need to number the references, as we do now. To modify the example above:
<ref name=foo>Book, by Joe Bloggs</ref>
<ref name=bar>Other book, by Other Author</ref>
And add a new syntax, i.e. <ref name=foo detail="Page 22"/> which could render something like
And the references would output something like:
Steve Sanbeg ( talk) 23:32, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
<ref name=foo SomeOtherId=bar>stuff-that-should-really-be-tag-content</ref>
than it is <ref name=foo SomeOtherId="stuff-that-should-really-be-tag-content"/>
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Happy‑
melon
23:43, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
<ref name=foo>
somewhere to hold the "main" reference that all the sub-refs are subordinate to (not that that's an insurmountable problem). BTW, you could use double quotes without escaping, either as {{#tag:ref||name=foo|whatever="see, quotes!"}}
or <ref name=foo whatever='"see, quotes!"'>
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00:13, 19 December 2008 (UTC)How do I link to a section on a Ref Desk page that is current but in such a way that it will still be valid when the day gets archived? -- SGBailey ( talk) 23:33, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
{{#ifexist: Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 December 17 | [[Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 December 17#Phenomenological life]] | [[Wikipedia:Reference desk/Humanities#Phenomenological life]] }}
which renders as
Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 December 17#Phenomenological life. This should continue to work if the page is correctly archived.